Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Christina Barcelona is the latest offering from Writer-Director Woody Allen. It is the Story of Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlet Johansson) who take a trip to Barcelona for the summer. The two girls are looking for very different things when it comes to love. Vicky is very conservative when it comes to matters of the heart, she wants some one dependable but straight forward and not necessarily passionate and she has found just that with her fiancé, Doug (Chris Messina). Christina, in contrast is just out of a relationship and is very impulsive and passionate and is looking for something exciting and different but she is not completely sure what that is.
At an art exhibition, the friends see a painter Juan Antonio Gonzalo (Javier Bardem). Later they meet him at a restaurant where he unexpectedly invites them to go with him to Oviedo. He offers to show them the sight, eat, drink and if he gets his way, make love. Cristina is immediately excited by him and agrees, Vicky is a little less sure but after a little persuading eventually agrees.
What follows is a very complicated romance with a combination of Juan, Vicky, Cristina, and Juan’s slightly unstable ex-wife Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz). Cruz is brilliant, funny yet disturbing, no wonder she has got an Oscar nomination for this part. I don’t really want to spoil the plot any further but the film looks at what love is, what the characters thought they wanted and their self discovery about what they want in the future.
Vicky Christina Barcelona is well written and directed, it is amusing and interesting and although I felt the ending seemed just a little abrupt I enjoyed the 90 minutes. However a little word of warning, from the look of some of the people’s faces who left the cinema ahead of me I don’t think it is to everyone’s taste!
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