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(2015) Referentiality and the films of Woody Allen, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The evocative musical landscape found in Woody Allen's entertaining, neo-erotic comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona probably provides as much mood lifting magic and charm as the splendid postcard sites of Cataluña's capitol. Barcelona and not Madrid serves as Spain's center for pornographic films, but this known fact has remote relevance to the Woody Allen universe. This Spanish influenced film became one of Allen's most profitable pictures of his career. The summer of love was once a state of mind for the recent college graduate and the young age quickly in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The whole is not necessarily greater than the sum of its parts for this junket of three improbable love triangles. Far worse, the whole can be insufferable in the portrait of love.
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Havis, A. (2015)., Guitar and cultural trespass in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in K. S. Szlezák & D. E. Wynter (eds.), Referentiality and the films of Woody Allen, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 159-172.
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