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The new movie doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the early, funny films. But, like Annie Hall and Manhattan, it is about people whose jobs are incidental to their real vocations of falling in love and messing things up. With seven major characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Barcelona Summer of Love | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

The title characters are two American women and a one very romantic city. Vicky (English stage actress Rebecca Hall, who was the beguiling pawn of two magicians in The Prestige) wrote her master's in Catalan Identity. Before marrying businessman Doug (Chris Messina), she has come to Barcelona to spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Barcelona Summer of Love | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

No less than Henry James, Allen is judgmental of Americans abroad - they betray a sexual naïveté when exposed to a society so much more practiced in the art of gracious loving. And no less than Vicky and Cristina, Allen is almost starstruck by the Spaniards, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Barcelona Summer of Love | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

Hutz became aware of his own extended gypsy family in rural Ukraine as a teenager, and it's an identity he embraces. In the 2006 documentary Pied Piper of Hutzovina he embarks on a musical pilgrimage through Roma camps in the Carpathians to Siberia to meet his hero, seven-string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigrant Punk: Eugene Hutz | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

On the third morning, I try breakfast again, ordering in Mandarin. Like the first waitress, this one glares and unhelpfully points to menus I can't read when I ask for help; she rolls her eyes when I ask for water, and she drops down my food with a tension...

Author: By Lingbo Li | Title: Breakfast in Cantonese | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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