- Format: CD-ROM
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Generic
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B001DJ7PR8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #35,230 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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In Vicky Christina Barcelona, Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Oscar nominee Penélope Cruz, and Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson light up the stunning city of Barcelona in this sexy romantic comedy. Vicky and Cristina are two young Americans spending a summer in Spain who meet a charming "Casanova" and his beautiful but volatile ex-wife. When they all become romantically entangled, the smoldering sparks begin to fly in hilarious fashion.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
get rid of the voiceover narration,
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This review is from: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (DVD)
Let's face facts, Woody Allen has long since ceased to be relevant to cinema and seems to make "films" based around this narrow New York bubble he exists in.Thankfully, he finally made a movie outside of that bubble and gave us what most of us want--a sensual pic set in a beautiful foreign locale (Barcelona natch!) and occupied with a range of characters running from the gorgeous and mysterious to the plain and mundane. Even so this movie falls so flat. The ending just seems like he ran out of money and shut the camera off. Pluys the way he actually treats relationships is almost cartoonish. the potential in the story is there but he's unable to weave multiple storylines (hey, Woodman, go watch a guy Ritchie caper flick to see how it's done in the 21st century) without seeing them simply left hanging and unresolved. Also, stop treating us adults like we can't figure out the gaps in scenes. the voiceover narration is like some sort of instructions to the blind. It's beyond annoying. First rule of cinema, if you have to use narration, especially a third person one, to explain what is going on you've done a terrible job in filmmaking and are flat-out lazy. There are zero extras on the version of this DVD I watched the flick on. That's sad as a whole Gaudi/Miro travelogue and making of is what I was dying for. Throw in the whole Javier No Country and Penelope Cruz dynamic in real life it'd be interesting to know what went on during the production of the movie.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
"....only unfulfilled love can be romantic",
By Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (DVD)
"I have spoke with the tongue of angelsI have held the hand of a devil It was warm in the night I was cold as a stone But I still haven't found what I'm looking for" (U2) Short Attention Span Summary (SASS): 1. There's Vicky (Rebecca Hall) 2. There's Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) 3. There's Barcelona (the place in Spain, with the rain on the plain) 4. There's your movie title 5. Vicky and Cristina visit Barcelona one summer 6. Vicky's engaged, Cristina still hasn't found what she's looking for 7. They find Juan (Javier Bardem, who sure cleans up nicely once he puts away that captive bolt cow stunning gun) 8. He makes them an offer they can't refuse, but for different reasons 9. Wine, dinner and Spanish guitar follow 10. Things get crazy when the gorgeous ex-wife (Penelope Cruz in a wonderful scene-stealing performance) shows up 11. They manage a ménage 12. Deux, trois, quatre - what's the difference? 13. All good things ...... 14. ..... and we come to the end This is a rich and riotous recount of romance and reckless relationships, loaded with love, lust and loathing and lastly, leaving and longing. Recommended for fans of: 1. Woody Allen's better movies 2. Movies with narrators 3. A de-Chigurh-ed and positively smoldering Bardem 4. Muy caliente Penelope Cruz 5. That Scarlett chick Amanda Richards
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Multicultural exchange,
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This review is from: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (DVD)
Two beautiful young women arrive in Barcelona for a bit of quiet study (Vicky) and more man hunting (Christina), and they both find a gorgeous painter (Javier Bardem - I barely recognized him) hard to resist. Then they meet his wife, played wonderfully by Penelope Cruz. A sumptuously shot, low key, romantic movie with a few twists. The humour underlying the script, the love of life; you'd hardly associate this film with Woody Allen. One of his best ever.I especially appreciated the scenes in Spanish between Bardem and Cruz(subtitled, of course). The barely suppressed violence, the instability of their relationship. The menage a trois is artfully managed; the sexuality is without overt nudity. Strongly recommended as one of the best of 2008.
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