A creator with passion and a huge appetite for greatness

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2008)

OK.What is important in a movie?Structure,directing,lighting,photography,solid acting and good music.What did this movie had?Simple directing,the simplest narration(it actually had a narrator),not the most artistic photography,and wasn't particularly sidesplitting funny.Yet it probably is one of the creators best works.The acting was truly magnificent.A Penelope Cruz you have never seen,a Javier Bardem seductive as hell,and Rebecca Hall was charming and funny and breathtaking,at moments.Scarlet Johansson wasn't at her best,but still great,and of course gorgeous.The movie was funny,in a different kind of a way,than the old Woody Allen movies and it didn't force any emotions.They were just floating out of the movie.The music was so great,to say the least.A creator with passion and a huge appetite for greatness.Not fake,or pretentious it nails you to the chair and makes you feel sad when it is over.A different directing in almost every aspect.I found it difficult to find similarities with any of his old movies.A must see,and yet another movie that proves Woody Allen is the exact opposite of finished.