Dazzling, sexy, disquieting, brilliant, writer-director Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a comical tale of two cities, Barcelona and Oviedo. It is indeed a film about pairs. For example, the two lead characters, Cristina and Vicky, are best friends sharing, that is to say, dividing a summer holiday in Spain. Cristina’s eyes are another example: […]
Daily Archives: October 26, 2008
I may have dreamt this, but I seem to recall the graffiti “CLASS WAR,” or possibly “CLASS STRUGGLE,” scrawled on the side of a building that Steve (wonderful Robert Carlyle, departing his twenties), a London construction worker from Glasgow, passes by in the course of Ken Loach’s affecting Riff-Raff. Power does not belong to laborers […]
Dennis Grunes 