TWO American friends on holiday in Barcelona (go on, can you guess their names?) find themselves in love with the same passionate painter (Javier Bardem).

One’s blonde and wild, the other’s dark and reserved – and then Penelope Cruz turns up as the insane ex-wife (in her Oscar-winning performance) to liven things up even more.

When Hollywood goes to the Mediterranean for its summer holidays, everything is lovingly bathed in a permanent honeyed glow.

Woody Allen’s film is a frothy, pretty-to-look-at bit of fun with natural dialogue and plenty of trademark relationship angst – and armchair travel thrown in.