The cast of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is muy caliente … and the movie’s not bad either. Two sets of the most voluptuous lips in the business, belonging to Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson, rendezvous together and with Latin heartthrob Javier Bardem in a light romantic roundelay set in sunny Spain’s most sultry city.
On the next stop of Woody Allen’s recent European tour, which has included the plot-driven London crime capers “Match Point” and “Scoop,” the once incurable New Yorker returns to the character-driven form if not the former location of his most resonant work. The prolific writer-director harks back to the good old days when “Annie” and “Hannah” (and many others) bantered wittily about the bohemian/bourgeois vagaries of love and self-actualization in a funky Manhattan.
