Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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Movie
German title Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Original title Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Country of production United States , Spain
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2008
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Woody Allen
script Woody Allen
production Letty Aronson
Stephen Tenenbaum
Gareth Wiley
camera Javier Aguirresarobe
cut Alisa Lepselter
occupation
synchronization

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 comedy film directed by and screenwriter Woody Allen starring Javier Bardem , Scarlett Johansson , Rebecca Hall and Penélope Cruz . Allen tells a story of love and jealousy, passion and pain.

action

Vicky and Cristina from the USA want to spend the summer in Barcelona , where they have been invited to their house by Judy, a distant relative of Vicky. The dark-haired Vicky and the blonde Cristina have been best friends since their time at university and have the same taste in almost every area except love. The down-to-earth Vicky is engaged to Doug, but the impulsive Cristina loves passion and adventure. Vicky is currently writing her master's thesis on “ Catalan identity”, while Cristina is currently unemployed after a self-made 12-minute film about the impossibility of love. Both visit the buildings of Gaudí and works of art by Miró in the city . Judy and her husband Mark take them to a vernissage , where they meet the painter Juan Antonio Gonzalo, who mourns his ex-wife María Elena. Juan immediately invites the two of them to a brisk threesome , which is initially rejected by Vicky. He also invites them to spend a weekend with him in Oviedo . Cristina agrees, and Vicky comes with her for the sake of her friend. Cristina visits Juan in the hotel room in the evening and is also ready to have sex with him. But just before they can get closer, her stomach ulcer makes her sick . She then has to spend the rest of the weekend in bed, so that Juan and Vicky can tour the city alone. Vicky's initial dislike for Juan disappears, and the attraction between the two soon grows. On the last evening, after listening to a guitar soloist, the two sleep together. Eventually the trio flies back to Barcelona.

After a while, Juan calls Cristina and makes an appointment with her. They spend the night together in his apartment. They now meet regularly. Vicky meets Juan by chance in Park Güell and blames him for not calling in after their night of love. Cristina has now moved in with Juan. Vicky's fiancé Doug is traveling from New York to marry her there. Vicky and Doug spend a short honeymoon in Seville . One night, Juan receives a call from the hospital where his ex-wife María Elena is being treated after attempting suicide. He picks her up there and puts her up in a guest room. At first, Cristina is irritated and reluctantly tolerates María Elena's presence. Over time, however, they both become friends. María Elena encourages her to devote herself more intensively to photography . Cristina now even accepts that she sleeps with Juan, later the two women get closer and so a love triangle develops . After a while, Cristina realizes that she wants something else; she ends the relationship and moves out again. Without Cristina, however, the relationship between Juan and María Elena becomes destructive again. They argue like in the old days until María Elena finally moves out.

After Vicky accidentally observed how Judy kisses a strange man, she confesses that she has not been happy with her husband Mark for a long time. Vicky then tells her about her affair with Juan and that she still has strong feelings for him and is no longer sure whether a marriage with Doug is right for her. Judy, who believes she recognizes herself and her own fate in Vicky's story, then arranges for a friend to invite Vicky and Juan to a party so that the two can meet again. However, Vicky does not want to put her marriage at risk and rejects Juan's advances. Finally, Juan can persuade Vicky to eat together the next day, after which she visits him in his apartment. As they kiss, María Elena suddenly appears with a revolver and starts shooting. A scuffle ensues in which a shot is fired and Vicky's hand is slightly injured. Vicky declares the two of them crazy and disappears again, but she hides the truth from Doug. In the end, everyone goes their own way again.

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Scarlett Johansson on the set in Barcelona in July 2007

The film was shot in Barcelona , Oviedo , Avilés and New York . A statue of the director Woody Allen has stood in Oviedo since 2003, but it cannot be seen in the film. Production of the film began in March 2007. Filming began on 9 July 2007 and ended on 23 August 2007. The cost of production was to 15.5 million US dollars estimated. On condition that the film was shot in Barcelona, ​​the city council of Barcelona assumed the production costs of one million euros on site; in addition, the Catalan regional government Generalitat de Catalunya contributed half a million euros. The public participation in the financing of the film caused criticism in Catalonia. According to a survey by the newspaper El Periódico , 75% of the citizens of the region did not agree. The world premiere took place on May 17th, 2008 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival . Screenings at various film festivals followed. The cinema release in the USA was on August 15, 2008, in Spain on September 19, in Switzerland on October 8, in Germany on December 4 and in Austria on December 5, 2008. The film was shown in cinemas around the world around 96 Million US dollars, of which 5.5 million in Germany and around 23 million in the USA, where more than 3.7 million US dollars were taken on the opening weekend alone. In terms of the ratio of income to budget, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is one of Woody Allen's most profitable productions.

The announcement of an erotic scene between Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz caused widespread media interest in advance.

The narrator, who leads through the film, is in the original voice Christopher Evan Welch , in the German dubbing Philipp Moog can be heard.

The film is Woody Allen's fourth European production after Match Point , Scoop and Cassandra's Dream . Scarlett Johansson can be seen in three of these productions . Woody Allen wrote the screenplay for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, starring Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem, who was the first and only possible cast for Allen. Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz married two years after the film was made. Joan Pera has dubbed Woody Allen in various Spanish and Catalan film productions over the past 20 years and can be seen in a cameo in Vicky Cristina Barcelona .

Javier Bardem, who does not have a driver's license, took extra driving lessons for his short scene behind the wheel, but without taking a driving test.

synchronization

The German synchronization was carried out by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron with a dialogue book by Klaus Bickert , under the dialogue direction by Joachim Tennstedt .

role actor Voice actor
Cristina Scarlett Johansson Luise Helm
Vicky Rebecca Hall Kathrin Gaube
Maria Elena Penelope Cruz Constanze Alvarez
Juan Antonio Gonzalo Javier Bardem Carlos Lobo
Doug Chris Messina Manou Lubowski
Judy Nash Patricia Clarkson Gertie Honeck
Ben Pablo Schreiber Pascal Breuer
Sally Carrie Preston Christin Marquitan
Adam Zak Orth Christian Weygand
teller Christopher Evan Welch (voice) Philipp Moog

reception

According to the verdict of the lexicon of international film 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona a "lively, amusing film with many burlesque twists and compelling performers in the Woody Allen tells once again the love of the impossibility" .

Martina Knoben wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Allen presents the dance of love in a tone of relaxed irony, with an omniscient narrator who already strikes a literary tone, including that of the penny novel. [...] When Cristina and Maria Elena finally kiss in the red light of a darkroom, you think you hear Master Allen giggling in the dark about his outrageous coup. He has committed the most beautiful women in the world and is now doing very indecent things to them. "

Bert Rebhandl sums it up in the daily newspaper : “Woody Allen shows people who are looking for a balance. He actually takes on a sovereign external position, as he makes clear by a narrator who accompanies the action from the off, introduces the characters and occasionally comments on their actions. The audience can therefore enjoy the film twice: the delights of identification are reinforced by the delights of overview. You can suffer with the characters and yet know that this is an artificial paradise, a vacation in exclusive walls that are only opened for a man like Woody Allen. "

Daniel Sander wrote in the mirror : “They are funny to look at, the errors and entanglements between these four beautiful people, who, as is typical for Allen, always have a few clever things to say to each other. Especially when Bardem and Cruz are let loose on each other and hurl themselves at each other in pointless machine-gun Spanish, then the film trembles with wit and charm. […] In the end, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" seems banal and not thought through to the end, as disoriented as its two heroines, who at some point just look like idiot women whose defeats the film seems to celebrate almost mockingly. [...] This film is like a postcard from Woody Allen, which you are happy about because it is so beautiful and then soon put away again because it just doesn't have much on it. "

Daniel Kothenschulte judged in the Frankfurter Rundschau : “Woody Allen tells the film in the style of Truffaut with an emphatically objective narrator from the off. But he is not satisfied with " Jules and Jim ", it should be a ménage à quatre. […] Everything about this film is predictable, but what can be said about it? It is the predictability of a Christmas party when Santa Claus once heeded the entire wish list. "

In Der Freitag it was read by Andreas Busche: “Woody Allen is certainly completely innocent of romance. Nevertheless, his new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona surprises with some admittedly very idiosyncratic confessions to this form of life. The choice of the location was probably not innocent: Woody Allen in Barcelona, ​​that's a strange idea. The Catalan way of life characterizes everything that an aging, bitter New York intellectual seems to be lacking. Vicky Cristina Barcelona makes ample use of such cultural stereotypes, but also draws a lightness from it that has been sorely lacking in him in recent years. "

Awards

Penélope Cruz, who does not appear in her supporting role as María Elena in the first 51 minutes of the film, but only appears in the last 41 minutes, has received numerous awards, including the awards of the film critics' associations of New York , Los Angeles , des National Board of Review , the Spanish Goya Film Award , the British Academy Film Award and the 2009 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress .

Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall were nominated for a Golden Globe in 2009, and Woody Allen's directorial work was awarded the prize for Best Comedy .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Vicky Cristina Barcelona . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 985 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Vicky Cristina Barcelona . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ a b c d budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ BBC : Allen film funding angers Spanish , July 30, 2007
  7. ↑ a b c Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  9. ↑ The Huffington Post : Scarlett Johansson And Penelope Cruz's Lesbian Scene For Woody , Katherine Thomson, February 7, 2008
  10. ↑ Vicky Christina Barcelona. German dubbing file, accessed on December 12, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Vicky Cristina Barcelona. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  12. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Menu of Desires ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Martina Knoben, December 3, 2008
  13. ↑ The daily newspaper : Love for three , Bert Rebhandl
  14. ↑ Der Spiegel : Postcard from Woody , Daniel Sander, May 17, 2008
  15. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau : The love of the darkroom , Daniel Kothenschulte
  16. ↑ Friday : At the end comes tourism , Andreas Busche, December 4, 2008
  17. ↑ a b Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database