12-11-2008, 08:32 PM
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the latest Woody Allen. A good story about love and honesty and city life, full of good-natured people who create a lot of troubles - which, for us, are quite amusing. Penelope Cruz turns out to be a great comic talent; Rebecca Hall is a name we will hear more about. The weak ending (litteraly, a shoot-out) is inevitable, because the more logical end you are expecting, would make the movie less light-hearted. And as always, Woody Allen has some mild wisdom when he shows what human beings are really like. If he had not chosen to be a movie director, he could have been a rabbi.
But when I left the cinema, there was the perennial Woody Allen problem: it was nice, it was good for a smile, and it was wise - and yet, the story would have been impossible if the people had belonged to the working class.
But when I left the cinema, there was the perennial Woody Allen problem: it was nice, it was good for a smile, and it was wise - and yet, the story would have been impossible if the people had belonged to the working class.
