Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Blu-ray]
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Javier Bardem, Patricia Clarkson, Penelope Cruz, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett JohanssonDirector: Woody Allen
Brand: Wellspring Media INC
Producer: Letty Aronson
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 96 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-01-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Charming and easy to watch.
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't write many reviews here. I don't really have the time. After reading some reviews here I had to write one.
When I first saw this film I didn't think too much of it. I did like it and it stayed in my head for several days afterward. When it came out on video I found myself buying it. I just had to see it again.
I've watched it about 3 times since.
I think the film is unrealistic as some people have mentioned here. A poet who lives in a beautiful Spanish villa, no one else seems to be short of money. I don't know many artists who live like the lead character here in a beautiful home with a swimming pool with large rooms. But there is something very interesting here.
I think I like what is says. Sometimes we think we know what we want but it's not really what we want. It's what we think we are supposed to do. What everyone around us expects us to do. What would happen if we just said 'to hell with it' and did whatever we wanted with whomever we wanted to do it with?
I appreciated the ambiance and the beautiful, charming scenery and the fact that the characters were bold enough to experiment with their lives a bit.
Not for everyone but I think some people will appreciate this.
Summary of Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Blu-ray]
Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz (Volver) and Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson (The Nanny Diaries) light up the stunning city of Barcelona in this sexy romantic comedy. Vicky and Cristina are two young Americans spending a summer in Spain, who meet a charming Casanova and his beautiful but volatile ex-wife. When they all become romantically entangled, the smoldering sparks begin to fly in hilarious fashion. Critics rave, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is one of Woody Allen s finest films, with bravura performances from its incredible cast (Jeffrey Lyons, Reel Talk/NBC).It must be true that getting out of town can do a fellow a lot of good, because Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the best movie Woody Allen has made in years. Okay, you're right, 2006's Match Point already claimed that honor and, as Allen's first film made in England, established the virtues of getting away from overfamiliar territory (namely Manhattan). But the Woodman's first film made in Spain matches the ice-cold Match Point for crisp authority, and yields a good deal more sheer pleasure besides. Rebecca Hall (Vicky) and Scarlett Johansson (Cristina) play two young Americans, best friends, spending a summer in Catalonia. Vicky is going for a master's in "Catalan identity" (though her Spanish is shaky); Cristina is going along for, oh, just about anything. That soon includes celebrated abstract artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who's anything but abstract in his forthright proposition that the two join him in his private plane, his travels, and his bed. That he has an insane ex-wife, Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz), who may or may not have tried to kill him is not really an issue until the wife reappears and ... well, consider the possibilities.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona isn't exactly a comedy, at least not in the manner of Allen's "early, funny ones," but it's informed by a rueful wit that finds its fullest expression in reflective voiceover commentary. Spoken by Christopher Evan Welch, but surely on behalf of the 73-year-old auteur, this element of the film is neither (as some have charged) patronizing nor uncinematic; rather, it's integral to the movie's participation in a venerable European literary tradition, the sentimental education. Instead of Bergman or Fellini, this time Allen is invoking the François Truffaut of Jules and Jim and Eric Rohmer in his many meditations on the game of love. The entire cast is terrific (both Hall and Johansson get to play "the Woody part" at different points), with Bardem and Cruz especially delightful as exemplars of Old Worldliness. Cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe honors every drop of Catalonian sunlight and glint of Gaudí architecture. --Richard T. Jameson
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