With its star studded line-up, stunning backdrop and sharp dialogue, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is arguably director, Woody Allen's finest work since Bullets Over Broadway (1994). The film's talented cast includes Penelope Cruz who won a "Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role" Oscar for her outstanding performance as the explosive Maria, also, Scarlett Johansen (Christina), Javier Bardem (Juan) and Rebecca Hall (Vicky). The story begins in beautiful Barcelona where two American best friends, Vicky and Cristina are spending their summer months. Despite... being complete opposites; Vicky is sensible, diligent, cautious and engaged, whereas, Cristina is sexually adventurous, reckless and in search of new passions, the pair soon discover they have more in common that they first thought when they clash over a love interest. Juan is a passionate and extremely seductive bohemian artist who whisks the women off their feet and proposes that the three of them fly to Oviedo for the weekend, with the aim of making love. Vicky is in a relationship but is persuaded by Cristina to go along on the trip, however, unexpected events force them to return to Barcelona when Juan's insanely obsessive and volatile ex-wife enters the mix. Two friends (Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall) on a summer holiday in Spain become involved with the same painter (Javier Bardem), unaware that his fiery and volatile ex-wife (Penelope Cruz) is about to re-enter the picture. [show more]
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Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) are American best friends who have the luck of spending several summer months in the Spanish city of the title. Though the pair is inseparable, they clash over love: Vicky is engaged to the trustworthy Doug (Chris Messina), while Cristina is forever in search of new experiences and passions. When a fiery Spanish painter named Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) proposes that the three fly off to Oviedo for the weekend with the goal of making love, the women are divided, but they both eventually agree to the trip. After unexpected events in Oviedo, they return to Barcelona where Juan Antonio's obsessive ex-wife (Penelope Cruz) enters the picture.
Woody Allen writes and directs this romantic comedy drama, his fourth consecutive film to be shot outside the United States. When two young American friends, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), spend a summer in Barcelona, they both become infatuated with flamboyant artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem). Things are further complicated when Juan's emotionally unstable ex-wife Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz, in an Oscar-winning performance) reappears on the scene, and chaos soon reigns as the characters become amorously entangled to varying degrees.
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