The inevitable mistakes we have the right to commit (It's called Living)

Rating: 7/10 (17 October 2010)

I just saw this film. I never saw it before because I read the bad reviews when it came out, and that cooled down my usual enthusiasm for Woody Allen's films.
I love his work, some of it passionately.
And I was quite surprised at the quality of this work. Maybe because of the bad reviews I read when it came out. One should never read reviews about a movie that one wants to see. One must go and see it and then, later on, if one so decides, one can read the reviews.
Most of them usually disagree so much among themselves that it seems they are talking about different movies!! First of all, having lived myself in Barcelona during 15 years I must say I was constantly moved by the different (gorgeous) locations I know so well and used to visit almost daily (Oh, Dear..., one of the most beautiful and fascinating cities I had ever known!!).
Talking about Barcelona's locations, I must say that they picked up for this film some of the most expensive, high class, exclusive neighborhoods in that town.
After a while I thought: "These characters are millionaires!", because practically very few people can afford to live in those places (next to Paradise).
The pacing is excellent, the photography gorgeous, and of course, Allen's philosophy (very bitter, ultra-realistic and the point of view of somebody that is already back from everything) if practiced by more people, would make this world a better place to live in.
I'm not sure that very young people would have the poise of these characters under similar circumstances.
But the whole effect works for the story, it's very entertaining and if you stop to think about many lines, a deep wisdom runs under apparently frivolous talk.
The actors, excellent all of them, the girls very pretty and Bardem, as usual, one of the sexiest men walking around on this earth --and what a voice!