Vicky Christina Barcelona, ​​critic at Actualidad Cine

I saw this last night, Woody Allen's latest film, with Penélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall. Call "Vicky Christina Barcelona«.

It narrates the holidays of two best friends, Vicky (Rebecca) and Christina (Scarlet), in Barcelona. There they meet Juan Antonio (Bardem) who has recently separated from his wife, María Elena. He is a well-known painter, and he invites both friends to spend a weekend in Oviedo, where he raises his desire to make love to them. Both friends are, when it comes to love, a stark antithesis. Christina falls in love with Juan Antonio from the first moment, but Vicky, committed to a very correct gentleman in the United States, is reluctant to face so much liberalism. Although in the end, he ends up giving in, and falling in love without wanting to.

In the middle, who is it? My dear Penelope Cruz, who plays María Elena, Juan Antonio's ex-wife. She reappears after a suicide attempt, just in the prime of the relationship between the artist and Christina. The point is that love and the feeling of "completeness" lead them to fall in love, and they end up forming a love trio. Meanwhile, Vicky dies inside from an uncertainty about what she wants.

And the ending is great. But I'm not going to tell it. The point is that, from my humble opinion, I'm going to play at being a film critic, just for a little while. The film has an omniscient narrator who guides us around the friends' journey. That made a little noise to me, but once the first half of the film is over, it becomes more natural. The good thing is that it is not a constant story, but that it allows the characters to do. Penelope Cruz is in a fabulous role, since her character is really delicious, just like Bardem's. The story itself seems to me to synthesize the concept of what summer vacations always entail. And I think that's why I applaud, above all things, Woody Allen. For having achieved the synthesis with characters as rich as those already named.

A humble review, because I can only applaud and get excited. I'm just saying that I fervently recommend the film to you.


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