Going To The Movies: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
It's an Woody Allen film, should I say more? It's a beautiful and messy story about a city (Allen's trademark) and the lives of its inhabitants. Some of them are just spending the summer there, like Vicky and Cristina - two very different girls who happen to be best friends. While Vicky is rational, practical and goal orientated, Cristina is the exact opposite - spontaneous, chaotic and never sure about what she really wants. While in Barcelona the girls meet the artist Juan Antonio, a very enigmatic and slightly strange man.
Things happen differently in Spain. Barcelona and the are are the third main protagonist in the film, their smell and colour and voice and laughter are to be sensed through the screen. Juan Antonio y Maria Elena are the spice in the movie, they are this kick that makes a masterpiece out of an ordinary story. They are the vital ingredient for this paella of emotions, actions and words to explode as it does.
And while Woody Allen is, this time, not present himself in the film as an actor, his mimics and small facial expressions, ticks and strange habits are beautifully embedded in Vicky, she's just as quirky as he is in the best way imaginable.
Woody Allen strikes again with yet another love-story about a city and it's inhabitants. Just seeing the movie makes you wanna go there and fall in love yourself. This is one of my favourite Allen movies, probably taking second-best place only to Midnight in Paris, the ultimate lovestory with Paris.
Grade: 9/10
You can't get lost if you don't know where you're going...
