Los Angeles Times as "an grownup, provocative piece of do the job". The New York Times praised Johansson, aged 17 at the time of filming, for playing an older character. In her third collaboration with Woody Allen, the passionate comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), which was filmed in Spain, Johansson performs a single of the enjoy passions of Javier Bardem's character alongside Penélope Cruz.