unrealistic cliché

Rating: 5/10 (8 April 2011)

I mean, I know Woody loves cliché characters, but here it's too much... And these cliché are also not-believable. The troubled painter dresses like Dolce & Gabbana fashion style and he's always perfect like he takes 3 shower per day and goes to the hair dresser every week. The artistic girl Scarlet looks like a bimbo when she talks, and she dresses without any kind of style or personality, I mean, did you ever meet a early twenty something years old who writes, direct movies and make pictures, that goes around with that bourgeois style? And Barcelona looks like the stereotype Americans have about Europe. They drink Italian coffé again and again like it's Nescafé. The only true character in the movie is Rebecca Hall. I suppose it's her story, because all others characters are unrealistic. Bardem looks like a zen enlightened master, just to end up fighting like a bitch for who knows what. Most fascinating performance was Penelope Cruz'. But I guess this movie was a success mainly because it talks about threesomes and sapphic sex other than unhappy marriages, and it does it in an open way, which is all good, and I agree with it. But it was kind of disappointing. The old and fascinating passion vs rationality struggle..., but kind of banal. And I mean, NOT A SINGLE (FUNNY) JOKE in the entire movie!! Was this Woody Allen?