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Article: Love and lust in Barcelona; Woody Allen's latest setting is the backdrop for a movie that offers a few illuminating moments.(Life)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2009
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For his past four movies, Woody Allen has been working in Europe - three in London and a new one, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in Barcelona. It was initially neat to think of the film-maker on vacation away from Manhattan (or, given his preference for casting Scarlett Johansson, on his honeymoon). It might be time to see what his native New York has to offer again. His next film is set there, but we have to admit that Allen may never come entirely home - if not geographically, then at least artistically.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is fitfully good. It sets loose two American friends - Johansson's lusty but insecure Cristina and Rebecca Hall's prim Vicky - on Barcelona ...