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Article: A fling of beauty ; Vicky Cristina Barcelona (12A)
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2009
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona (12A)
The Spanish sun evidently proved a tonic for filmmaker Woody
Allen.
After a sojourn to London to make three very different and
equally disappointing films (Match Point, Scoop, Cassandra's Dream),
the writer-director heads to sunnier climes for this romantic comedy
about two friends whose lives are turned upside down by the same
passionate hombre.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is not vintage fare from the
bespectacled New Yorker, who dissected the battle of the sexes so
pithily with Annie Hall, Manhattan and Hannah And Her Sisters.
However, this picture postcard is a long overdue step in the right
direction, with obvious financial backing from the Spanish tourist ...