Story of Vicky (Rebecca Hall who played Caroline in Frost/Nixon)and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) spending a summer in Spain. Staid and very American Vicky has her whole life mapped out including her fiance who is at home, whilst Cristina is a free spirit no plan.
In beautiful Barcelona (although I think when they go to Park Guell and other sites I've been to the colours in the movie come nowhere near to what I remember), the girls meet a charismatic artist, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who invites them to fly to Oviedo and stay with him. He announces his intention of seducing them both at he same time. Oviedo is beautiful and through circumstances Cristina, who wants to sleep with Juan Antonio doesn't. He then spends a lot of time with Vicky who cannot stand him at the beginning. She soon warms to Juan Antonio and the ineveitable happens.
Matters are complicated by the unexpected arrival of Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz), Juan Antonio's beautiful, unpredictable - and quite definitely insane -ex-wife. Maria Elena moves in with Cristina and Juan Antonio and it's bliss for all of them. It is a different way of looking at relationships. It is funny in parts, but things turn a little serious towards the end and it ends.
We thought it was an interesting movie by Woody Allen, but not one of his greats.
Barcelona and the surrounding countryside were beautiful, but strangely disappointing to me because to me Barcelona surpasses beautiful.
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