Spanish holidays and dialectics
Perhaps Woody Allen is just a dirty old man. His relationship with, and marriage to, his adoptive step-daughter is well publicised. And recent films, such as 2005’s Match Point, have centred not so much around the philosophical conflicts and neuroses of his earlier works as on his latest muse Scarlett Johansson's cleavage. After a series of damp-squib releases set in London, Allen has moved onto Barcelona — and taken a great deal of controversy with him. The involvement of the Catalan tourism authorities in funding Vicky Cristina Barcelona sparked a debate around whether the film was anything...