Woody Allen’s “You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger” follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Oscar nominee Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Lucy Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (“Slumdog Millionaire” star and beauty Freida Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. Despite these characters’ attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality, and perilous hot water. Taking its title from the prediction fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, “You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger,” illustrates with wry humor how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all. The movie was shot in London and “You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger” made its world premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Release Date: September 22, 2010
