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Barcelona: Woody Allen's ‘Big Apple’ in Europe

The American director continues to swap Central Park and New York jazz for Gaudi’s buildings and Spanish flamenco. What happened to Manhattan’s most famous lover? We discover a new Woody Allen in his latest flick 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' lire l'article

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 2008-10-08 11:50:24

This discussion is also running in : Spanish [2], Italian [1], German , French [6], Polish [2], you are reading it in: English [3].

sergal
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Posted: 2008-10-09 18:16

Scarlett Johansson (actress)actually is a clone from original person,who has nothing with acting career.Clone was created from stolen biomaterial.Original Scarlett Galabekian last name is nice,CHRISTIAN young lady.Clones(not 1)made in GERMANY,leader manufacturer of humans clones,it's in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,N.Bavaria,Mr.Helmut Kohl home town,they spreading globaly NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled,be careful get close you'll be controlled too.Original family didn't authorize activity with stolen biomaterials,it's all should go to Cedars-Sinai MedCenter in LA.Controlling clones is US military operation.Original Scarlett wasnt engage,by the wy
Nabeelah
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Posted: 2008-10-13 19:49

Penelope Cruz' entrance in the character of Maria Elena was fantastic. But then it gets a bit monotonous. And how can you be studying Catalan identity (character of Vicky) without speaking a scratch of Spanish? Stereotypes were abound; the Spanish guitar, flamenco. And being born near Oviedo does not make Javier Bardem's character catalan! Ouch. Essentially an American tourism piece, more so I felt than his previous films in London
mbrown
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Posted: 2008-10-15 01:50

"There has also been criticism on the American’s inability to present a Catalan identity. Vicky (played by the fantastic Rebeca Hall) is a student who, along with her idle friend Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), comes to Barcelona to get her masters in Catalan identity – but then why does the film not have a scratch of dialogue in Catalan?"
Hmmmm, let's see, maybe Catalan doesn't get airtime because American students have a hard-as-shit time meeting anyone Catalan who is willing to give them the time of day in Barcelona. By any objective standard, their reception is luke-warm, small-minded, myopic, dismissive and anti-American and that could lend much linguistic preference to Spanish. Art mirrors reality.

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