You know, in writing this and looking up all of Woody Allen's movies, I can't really remember the last time I thoroughly enjoyed one. Well, apart from Antz.This movie revolves around Vicky and Cristina (Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson). Two friends who go to Barcelona to visit friends before Vicky is supposed to be married. By chance, they meet Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem). He is a tortured sculptor who just got out of a violent marriage to Maria (Penelope Cruz). Juan Antonio decides to try and seduce both Vicky and Cristina, while keeping the psychotic Maria at bay.
An Oscar for this? That may be a stretch, but Penelope Cruz was the best part of this. She was funny and clearly enjoyed playing a raging bitch. Bardem was good, too, but is it weird I just wanted him to kill people with a Dorothy Hamill haircut? For a movie whose characters differ on opinions of cliches about love, that's all this movie turned into...intentional or not.
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