Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Sub: Eng]
Vicky and Cristina, these two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane ex-wife. Vicky is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, both comedic and harrowing results ensue.
1957, Igualada, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
28 April 1974, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
2 November 1971, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
28 August 1959, Montesquieu, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1968, Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1 March 1969, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
September 29, 2012
It's a shift in tone for Allen; it's still a movie about sex and those who seek it, but it's hung on a sun-blushed, wine-sploshed Spanish love triangle that's more appealing and more amorous than anything the director has produced in decades.May 16, 2016
Unlike the vast majority of summertime comedies, the delights of Vicky Cristina Barcelona won't evaporate any time soon.October 18, 2008
Every time you're ready to count Woody Allen out for good, he comes back and surprises you.August 15, 2011
Although Penelope Cruz's performance is amusing, the film feels a bit forced, looking for meaning in Spain where there may not be any.October 18, 2008
When great artists maintain their health and energy into their 70s, amazing things can happen -- and they're happening with Woody Allen.March 13, 2017
What you see is less reflective of old glories and more indicative of a new composure that inflicts a lot of Allen's newest endeavors, in which characters are seen engaging in discussions that test the limits of their deadening comforts.February 05, 2009
The script is witty and playful, the casting just right.October 21, 2014
I couldn't imagine better company than Vicky, Cristina and Woody on a relaxing summer day.October 18, 2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is fitfully good.February 06, 2014
Allen seems uninterested in pushing his material beyond impersonally generic, or even in thinking things through.October 18, 2008
The film belongs to Bardem and Cruz.October 18, 2008
There is nothing wrong with Allen's determination to mix humor and drama, it's simply too bad he's not getting better at it.