Vicky Cristina Barcelona PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 27, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz & Rebecca Hall | |
Performer: | Kevin Dunn, Chris Messina & Patricia Clarkson | |
Directed by | Woody Allen | |
Edited by | Alisa Lepselter | |
Screenwriting by | Woody Allen | |
Produced by | Stephen Tenenbaum, Letty Aronson & Gareth Wiley | |
Director of Photography: | Javier Aguirresarobe |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2009 -
Best Supporting Actress: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Missing from Vicky Cristina Barcelona are the keenly complex touches that elevated [Woody Allen's] earlier statements on caprice. Then again, that's been gone from his movies for years, and there's vain hope in thinking that Iberia would inspire it again.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
No doubt about it, Allen's latest throwaway rom-com is utterly silly, forgettable and predictable. It's also his most purely entertaining film in years.
Little White Lies
Truly a ride of pure enjoyment to watch...
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Remezcla
Rating: 3/5 --
Slight, disposable but entertaining. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is an awful lot better than anything in his thankfully short "British" period.
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Guardian
3 stars out of 5 -- The performances of Bardem, Cruz, Johansson and Hall are delightfully inventive....This may not be vintage Woody Allen, but it's certainly the best thin he has done in a long time...
Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- A dispatch from the battle between the head and heart....It's clear, perceptive and, most surprisingly, hot-headed and frisky.
Empire
Rating: 3/4 --
Perhaps the biggest surprise, though, is Miss Cruz. She has always been a more than serviceable actress, but here she really shines.
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Washington Times
Product Description:
From watching the trailer for VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, one might never have guessed that it was actually an offering from prolific auteur Woody Allen. There's no New York, no sight of Allen, and his trademark wit was nowhere to be seen. But this film--with its talented cast, sharp dialogue, and excellent use of gorgeous locations--marks Allen's best comic work since 1994's BULLETS OVER BROADWAY. Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) are American best friends who have the luck of spending several summer months in the Spanish city of the title. Though the pair is inseparable, they clash over love: Vicky is engaged to the trustworthy Doug (Chris Messina), while Cristina is forever in search of new experiences and passions. When a fiery Spanish painter named Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) proposes that the three fly off to Oviedo for the weekend with the goal of making love, the women are divided, but they both eventually agree to the trip. After unexpected events in Oviedo, they return to Barcelona where Juan Antonio's obsessive ex-wife (Pénélope Cruz) enters the picture.
As the rule-bound Vicky, Hall--who has been largely unknown to American audiences before this film--gives a wonderfully witty performance that keeps pace with her more famous costars. Those who have only seen Bardem in his Oscar-winning role as the cold killer in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN will be surprised by his sexy turn in VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA. Though it's often women who steam up the screen, Bardem seduces Vicky, Cristina, and the audience with such abandon that it's tough for everyone involved not to emerge a little bit smitten. Johansson, Allen's new-millennium muse, is the director's mouthpiece--she's consistently funny and more than a little neurotic, and you can hear Allen's voice in her performance.
As the rule-bound Vicky, Hall--who has been largely unknown to American audiences before this film--gives a wonderfully witty performance that keeps pace with her more famous costars. Those who have only seen Bardem in his Oscar-winning role as the cold killer in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN will be surprised by his sexy turn in VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA. Though it's often women who steam up the screen, Bardem seduces Vicky, Cristina, and the audience with such abandon that it's tough for everyone involved not to emerge a little bit smitten. Johansson, Allen's new-millennium muse, is the director's mouthpiece--she's consistently funny and more than a little neurotic, and you can hear Allen's voice in her performance.
Description by Genius Productions:
Two girlfriends on a holiday in Spain fall for the same charming painter,
unaware that his dynamo ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is
about to reenter the picture.
unaware that his dynamo ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is
about to reenter the picture.
Keywords:
Friends
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Romance
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Love Triangle
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Doomed Lovers
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Melodrama
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Infidelity
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Theatrical Release
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Spain
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