Monday, June 15, 2009

BD review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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Blu-ray

"Pleasant" is a fitting adjective to describe Vicky Cristina Barcelona. "Insubstantial" is another. When the lights came up at the end of Woody Allen's latest romantic drama - or should that be dramatic romance? - I was very much left with the impression that not a lot had actually transpired in the space of its 96-minute duration. Then again, perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise: the director's work of late has been patchy at best, with each new offering being tenuously heralded by one camp as a return to form and decried by another as conclusive proof that he is a has-been...

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