since Woody Allen's model Ingmar Bergman homage, his films seemingly irreconcilable opposites unite: you always act of existential things, this package but in such a silly stories that the big questions of humanity sound like the self-talk of a fool. "Life is short, bleak and full of suffering," the male lead character says in Allen's new movie, so what, would be to finish the thought, nor give too much effort? According freely Allen then goes to the point: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" is an equally hasty as amusing trip to the English cliché with a lot of Gaudi architecture, languid guitar and a sultry Señorita as frosting. Although you get lost in this narrow universe can hardly represents all the audience an amazing intrusive narrator as tour guides. From him we learn that the American friends Vicky and Cristina are as different as night and day: one is always sensible and thoughtful, the other is impulsive, fun-loving and a bit disoriented. One is engaged to a well-off man, the other hops from one bed to another Lotter, one is brunette, the other blond. Together, they spend a Summer in Barcelona and stumble unexpectedly on a local painter, from which he is said to recovering from an equally passionate as unhealthy marriage. Quite bluntly, Juan Antonio invites both a love for the tourists weekend, as the one expected to react indignantly, while the other is instantly in flames. One can almost imagine how it goes: The serious Vicky falls silently to the artist, while the flighty Cristina moved to his hacienda. There still haunts around the divorced wife Maria Elena, Juan Antonio's first only in thought and then, after a failed suicide attempt, even as a person. Apparently the two can not live with each other nor without each other, resulting in beautiful scenes of jealousy, and finally to the realization that Cristina is the missing link that has been missing all these years to ensure lasting happiness. For a short time fulfilled a happy menage a trois and the house is crowned with a love scene between Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson. It's the old story: Woody Allen gets not only all women, he gets them also to do everything for him. The abstruse narrative twists and subplots of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" can only be hinted at, just like the pleasure of Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz in her terrific eccentric Roles watch. It is crucial in any case, that after all the hubbub at the end again, everything is the same: Vicky maintains its unsuspecting fiancee, Cristina still know nothing clever to do with himself, and the English pair is to be back driven by frenzied passion for the jugular . Much Ado About Nothing, then, if not all parties had lost their way either certainty or at least their last illusions. The main message of his film does Woody Allen unspoken reason: man is not made for love and happiness even less. Michael Kohler (filmdienst 25/08)
These films I have in November 2008 for the first time Seen on DVD:
For the Unknown Dog 9 see Horton Hears a Who Interview 8 8
The Orphanage 8 Bruges ... And die? 7 and the Butterfly The Diving Bell 7 Schulz and Schulz, 7 meat is my vegetables 6 empties 7 Hotel very welcome six Race for Your Life - From Junkie to Ironman 5 Hancock 5
