MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexuality, and smoking.
Runtime: 96 min
This is threesome love story according to Woody Allen which still maintain his style, the same font used in the opening scene is the same in almost all his movie, and the cast name is being put in alphabetical order.
In this film, we meet two best friends, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), who decide to spend summer in the city of Barcelona, Spain, thus explaining the title easily.
By some weird narration, we know that Vicky engaged to Doug (Chris Messina) when she returns to New York while Cristina is more impulsive and has childlike quality that will make your eyebrows met in the middle of your forehead.
In the middle there's the Spanish cassanova, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), an abstract painter who had a tumutltuous scandal with Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz). As some 17 year old with raging hormones could predict, these people are enganged in a web of love, one night stand, threesome acts, lustful violence and despair to a level where you start to question the level of stupidity.
Not that this film is stupid, it is just that the degree of impulsiveness (is there such thing like that?) is beyond belief but also realistic, makes you wonder that for love, people will do anything and for this film, it is just weird. This is not as good as Annie Hall or Match Point but still can make you ponder about the nature of love and despair.
Like most Woody's work, it is hard to categorize this film as a romantic one, since it is also funny in a weird way, although not as funny as Scoop. Seeing this film makes you feel as if it is some hidden tourism promotion for Barcelona. I can't blame that, the scenery and building is very beautiful.
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