Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Woody Allen

Writer (WGA):

Woody Allen (written by)

Release Date:

15 August 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Life is the ultimate work of art

Plot:

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. |

Plot Keywords:

American | Photographer | Lesbianism | Artist | Catalonia

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Cast

Rebecca Hall	...	Vicky
Scarlett Johansson	...	Cristina
Christopher Evan Welch	...	Narrator
Chris Messina	...	Doug
Patricia Clarkson	...	Judy Nash
Kevin Dunn	...	Mark Nash
Julio Perillán	...	Charles
Juan Quesada	...	Guitarist in Barcelona
Richard Salom	...	Art Gallery Guest #1
Maurice Sonnenberg	...	Art Gallery Guest #2
Javier Bardem	...	Juan Antonio
Manel Barceló	...	Doctor
Josep Maria Domènech	...	Julio Josep
Emilio de Benito	...	Guitarist in Asturias
Jaume Montané	...	Juan Antonio's Friend #1

Also Known As:

Midnight in Barcelona (Spain) (working title)
Woody Allen Spanish Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexuality, and smoking.

Runtime:

USA:96 min (Cannes Film Festival) | USA:96 min

Country:

Spain | USA

Language:

Catalan | English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Mono)

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44252) | Finland:K-11 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Sweden:7 | Australia:M | Hong Kong:IIB | Brazil:12

Filming Locations:

Avilés, Asturias, Spain

Company:

Mediapro

Trivia:

The city of Barcelona offered to pick up the tab of production costs if the film was shot there, the amount rose up to two million Eur from public funds. Ultimately, the filmmakers shot in Barcelona.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene at the art show, Christina asks the aunt who the man is in the red shirt. The aunt replies that she doesn't know, and asks her husband who it is. But, toward the end of the movie Vicky ask Juan what he is doing at the aunt's party and he says he's a long time friend of the aunts.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Narrator: [voiceover] Vicky returned home to have her grand wedding to Doug. To the house they finally decided to settle in. And to lead the life she envisioned for herself before that summer in Barcelona. Cristina continued searching... certain only, of what she didn't want.

Movie Connections:

Features Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Soundtrack:

Granada

Entanglements Woody Style

Barcelona is recognizable enough and exotic enough to frame the latest complication from Woody Allen. Allen himself claims to care very little about films. He doesn't consider them the center of his life. Strange, because I do, Woody Allen without his films is...well I don't know who or what he is. Here he ventures again outside New York in a shape and form that reminded me a little bit of Jacques Rivette. Scarlet Johansson and Rebecca Hall, as the blond and the brunette of the title, make a great pair of opposites or seemingly so. Javier Bardem is the artist that comes to ruffle their world and the spectacular Penelope Cruz (getting better and better with every movie) is the hysterical side of the artist's past. We spend a great deal of time sitting at tables eating and drinking while a voice over guide us through their physical and emotional journey. I was delighted, entertained ever aroused. Woody Allen keeps surprising and he's got it whether he cares about it or not.