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Spanish aclress Penelope Gruz heats up photo call ior Woody Allen's'Vicky christina Barcelona" at Cannes film festival yesterday. Photo by AP
Dream team steams up Allen's comic drama
BY MICHAEL GILTZ
DAILY NEWS WRITER
CANNES - Woody Allen's new
comic drama, 'Viclry Cristina
Barcelona," h6 three words in
its title md a steamy threesome
among Scarlett Johansson,
Penelope CM and a very lucky
Javier Brdem at its heart
Earlv reviews uoon its world
premiere Friday
at the Cames
Film Festival
suggest this
could be
Allen's most
successful
moue srnce
2005's "Match
Point "
It's certainly his sexiest
At a press conference for the
film, which opens in New York
on Aug. 29, the 72-year-old di-
rector w6 asked whether he ev-
er tried similar amorous ar-
rangements in his personal life.
"It's htrd enough to get one
person," joked the Brooklyn^bom Allen, who is now filming
a comedy in New York- "In the
fllm you can do it, because I'm
dealing with larger-than-life
chdacters. In real l-ife, most of
us petty people could never han-
dle mything like that.
"It's hard enough to get a rela-
tionship to work out with one
Derson With two. it becomes
geometrically
" more fatal "
about "your boyfriend" Bardem
- who Allen explained was not
at the fest due to a "family prob-
lem" - md revealed nothing
when asked what it was like to
kiss Johansson"I've had that question four
times today," sighed Cro "l
didn't give any answer because
I didn't have a good answen I've
been wonderine what would
Woody say in thit situation, and
I'm still not insoired "The film is
about two
American
women
Johmsson
and Rebecca
Hall - who
spend the sm-
mer in Barcelona and are each
seduced by painter Bardem.
Johansson moves in with
him, md they're soon joined by
his wildly unstable ex-wife,
played by Cruz Though the
three are never seen in bed to.
gether, Cruz and Johmson do
share a passionate kiss in a pho.
tography darkroom-
Cruz ignored a questionDilector Allen makes the scene at cannes-stlavaganza Photo by AP.?
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Dream team steams up Allen's comic drama
BY MICHAEL GILTZ
DAILY NEWS WRITER
CANNES - Woody Allen's new
comic drama, 'Viclry Cristina
Barcelona," h6 three words in
its title md a steamy threesome
among Scarlett Johansson,
Penelope CM and a very lucky
Javier Brdem at its heart
Earlv reviews uoon its world
premiere Friday
at the Cames
Film Festival
suggest this
could be
Allen's most
successful
moue srnce
2005's "Match
Point "
It's certainly his sexiest
At a press conference for the
film, which opens in New York
on Aug. 29, the 72-year-old di-
rector w6 asked whether he ev-
er tried similar amorous ar-
rangements in his personal life.
"It's htrd enough to get one
person," joked the Brooklyn^bom Allen, who is now filming
a comedy in New York- "In the
fllm you can do it, because I'm
dealing with larger-than-life
chdacters. In real l-ife, most of
us petty people could never han-
dle mything like that.
"It's hard enough to get a rela-
tionship to work out with one
Derson With two. it becomes
geometrically
" more fatal "
about "your boyfriend" Bardem
- who Allen explained was not
at the fest due to a "family prob-
lem" - md revealed nothing
when asked what it was like to
kiss Johansson"I've had that question four
times today," sighed Cro "l
didn't give any answer because
I didn't have a good answen I've
been wonderine what would
Woody say in thit situation, and
I'm still not insoired "The film is
about two
American
women
Johmsson
and Rebecca
Hall - who
spend the sm-
mer in Barcelona and are each
seduced by painter Bardem.
Johansson moves in with
him, md they're soon joined by
his wildly unstable ex-wife,
played by Cruz Though the
three are never seen in bed to.
gether, Cruz and Johmson do
share a passionate kiss in a pho.
tography darkroom-
Cruz ignored a questionDilector Allen makes the scene at cannes-stlavaganza Photo by AP.?
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