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Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" has a natural, flowing vitality to it, a sun-drenched splendor that never falters. Two young American women go to Barcelona for the summer--Vicky (Rebecca Hall), who is bright, skeptical, and cautious, and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), more adventurous than her friend but unformed and easily dissatisfied, a seeker without a lodestar. In the magnificent city, they meet Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), who is incapable of spending a night alone. Bardem's natural-born lover--a painter, by trade--is as devastating as his natural-born killer in "No Country for Old Men." He's almost criminally attractive--soft-spoken and erudite, decent in ...

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