Dir.: Woody Allen
Cast: Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson, Javier Pardem, Penelope Cruz
This Oscar winning Woody Allen's film is once again about the Spanish avante garde liberal views about love and marriage. Tony wouldn't agree that Spanish are very progressive minded in regard to their views on these matters.
However, this is Woody Allen's quirky challenge to the entrenched beliefs about marriage, one-man-one woman relationships, love, etc. This challenge couldn't have been dramatized in an American setting. So he takes his protagonists to Barcelona for the brief summer duration when his heroines (Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson) go to Catalona to meet a bohemian artist Javier Pardem who has just split with his equally unstable but gifted wife Penelope Cruz. The artist frankly invites American tourists for a week-end of fun and love-making. Flabbergasted Rebecca balks (but is the first to be seduced), but the bohemian Scarlett agrees on the condition that there is no obligation and commitment to do any thing if she doesn't feel upto it. Then Penelope Cruz appears on the scene and for a time the artist, Johansson and Cruz live together and the broken marriage of the artist seems to heal while the three are together!! Before long the summer vacation ends and the American tourist girls leave while, in the process, Rebecca's engagement with a dependable guy also takes a beating under the influence of the artist's values.
The movie is fun though. Typical Allen.
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