FILM REVIEW: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sunday, September 28th, 2008© A.J. Malouin 2008
(Rating: 7 by The Film Snob)
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2008/Spain/USA. Written and directed by Woody Allen.)
With a big yawning wink at Henry James, two young women set off to spend the summer months on Holiday in the city of Barcelona. They go there because Judy and Mark Nash, American expatriates, have a huge home in which to put them up.
Even more important, they go there because the City of Barcelona offered to pay the film’s production costs if Woody Allen shot a film there. Sadly, the City of Barcelona did not get its money’s worth. More the to point, the audience here barely gets its money’s worth. (more…)