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TRAVEL BLOG8.14.08
Woody Allen’s ‘Love Letter to Barcelona’
"The film certainly mines a number of tourist clichés. There are close-ups of the Gaudi church I climbed up, shots of Las Ramblas and enough scenes of the teeming Mercat de la Boqueria to make world-weary viewers choke on their cava,” she writes. “But then Allen takes those postcard images further. He gets that Barcelona is joyously heterodox. It’s a place where relationships can’t be contained by mere etiquette. Dinner and evening strolls are rarely before 10 p.m. And guidebook stops aren’t just a safe flirtation with foreignness—they can be opening lines for deeper seductions.”
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COMMENTSI wonder how Scarlet Johansson manages to keep up with her talented co-stars in the film. By on 8.14.08 at 06:09 PM
Dunno about Barcelona, but whenever I see Woody Allen yapping away, I feel like stuffing a sock in his face. By Ling on 8.14.08 at 07:50 PM
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