It is a light, romantic, comedy. One night he has an extra ticket to the opera and invites Sally to join him. Helena begins seeing a fortune teller, Cristal (Pauline Collins), for spiritual advice. Sally is furious. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Theatrical Release: September 22, 2010 / Running Time: 98 Minutes / Rating: R / Songs List. You will like You will meet a Tall Dark Stranger. This is much, much, better than what the Critics say. Regizat de Woody Allen. As a result, Helena had a breakdown. 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They try to stimulate him by speaking to see if he will respond, and when one of them mentions Roy's supposed novel, the author seems to move his eyes. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - Original Soundtrack on AllMusic Lucy Punch, Josh Brolin, Woody Allen, Naomi Watts ja Gemma Jones Cannesin elokuvajuhlilla 2010. [13], Mark Asch at The L Magazine named it his 10th best film of 2010. YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER is very funny, full of lots of wry, clever, enjoyable humor. He takes Viagra in anticipation of having sex with her, but she is dismayed that he needs to wait a while to achieve the desired effect.Sally learns that a painter she has referred to Greg for a gallery exhibit is having an affair with him, and enjoying it quite a lot. Plus she is dating Jonathan, who shares her spiritual ideas.At a séance, Jonathan seems to make contact with his dead wife. Movie Review :You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Put Woody Allen himself in the role of any of the men who are in this film and it would have been a whole different movie. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 6,3 IMDb. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger - Vei întâlni străinul din visele tale. Lucy Punch in Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: ‘Elaborately plotted, perfunctorily directed, unevenly acted and short on verbal wit.’ But it also has a darker connotation, as Josh Brolin's character spells out: "You will meet the same tall, dark stranger that we all eventually meet," in other words, the grim reaper. Allen wrote the script because he was "interested in the concept of faith in something. He admits to his affair with her friend, and does not give Sally the reciprocal attraction she wants.Alfie sees Charmaine walking out of a hotel with a guy from their gym, having clearly slept with him.Roy moves in with Dia, and is soon happy to receive great praise from his publisher about the manuscript he has submitted, which of course is plagiarized.Alfie takes Helena to an old favorite restaurant and asks her to begin again, admitting he has messed up his recent life. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly stated "The film is notable, if that's the word, for being the first movie Allen has made in London that is every bit as bad as his most awful New York comedies, like Anything Else and Melinda and Melinda. Charmaine has sex with another man and gets pregnant. His increasing flirtation has been flattering to her, and causing her doubt about her love for Alan.Alfie gets an expansive and expensive apartment for Charmaine. The problem is, eventually, she's in for a rude awakening."[4]. Know about Film reviews, lead cast & … So it occurred to me that that was a good character for a movie: a woman who everything had failed for her, and all of a sudden, it turned out that a woman telling her fortune was helping her. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger finds veteran director Woody Allen on autopilot. An unseen narrator concludes that maybe having “illusions,” including false ones, are the best way to handle the harsh realities of life and find happiness. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Comedy Drama Romantic released in English language in theatre near you. دانلود فیلم You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 2010 با بازی Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin و ژانر محصول کشور آمریکا / اسپانیا به کارگردانی Complicating matters further, Helena shows up convinced that she has had a past life. It is well received. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger on vuonna 2010 ensi-iltansa saanut Woody Allenin ohjaama ja käsikirjoittama elokuva. The acting is superb. Things go wrong, and in the end, an arch narrator intones the moral. Roy walks away, ruminating.The narrator tells us that the story is now closing. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 English-language Spanish–American co-production comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Pauline Collins. But Greg confesses he is having trouble at home and eventually it turns out he is having an affair with Iris (Anna Friel), Sally's protégée. Woody Allen‘s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. He invites her to lunch nearby and is unabashedly flirtatious, in spite of her engagement to Alan, who sometimes visits her but lives in Brussels.Sally takes an assistant position in an art gallery and develops a crush on her new boss, Greg. As the narrator reveals, Alfie has not mentioned that he initially hired her as a prostitute and then fell in love with her. Sally expresses dismay about their romance, to which Helena responds, "He may not be a tall dark stranger, but hes become my stranger." Yet he suddenly discovers a much younger woman whom he wants to marry.Alfie's new engagement upsets Helena deeply, but Cristal foresees that he will not be happy with the new woman. 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. Distributie Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones. "[10], Two reviews expressed opposing viewpoints about where the film stands among Allen's films shot in London. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Spain-U.K. Production: A Sony Pictures Classics (in U.S.) release of a Mediapro, Versatil Cinema and Gravier Prods. Alfie immediately distrusts her, and insists he wants a paternity test.Helena tells Sally that her relationship with Jonathan has ended, but Cristal is optimistic for her. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) DVD. Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones) divorce. Alfie wants a DNA test to find out whether he is the father, but Charmaine argues that his paternity is irrelevant. Helena begins a friendship with Jonathan (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), the proprietor of an occult bookshop, which develops into romance. Elokuva sai ensi-iltansa Cannesin elokuvajuhlilla vuonna 2010. Sally considers having an affair with Greg (Antonio Banderas), her new boss at an art gallery. Just then Roy gets a call from his publisher with the bad news that his latest manuscript has been rejected. Sally explains she needs a bigger loan for her new gallery, but Helena says Cristal has told her that the stars are not aligned for any large financial transaction. He hears that Henry, a friend who is also a writer, has died in an accident. "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" tells the superficially wonderful life of an old man, who feels his life slipping away as he grows old. As a narrator elucidates, Helena's husband Alfie had suddenly become terrified of dying and then became obsessed with fitness. The prolific director might have had his share of not-so-critically-acclaimed mishaps, but this is not one of them. He put himself through a complete body makeover and wanted out of the marriage. Sally quits her job and asks Helena for a loan she promised, for setting up her own art gallery, but Helena refuses because according to Cristal it is astrologically a bad time. "YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER" (2010) (Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin) (R) If you've come from our parental review of this film and wish to return to it, simply click on your browser's BACK button. He asks Helena to make a new start with him, but she refuses. Roy's book is rejected. Roy is informed that there was a mix-up of the people killed in the accident and is shocked to hear that Henry is actually in a coma and recovering. Now he wants to have a son with her, because his only son died, and he has persuaded Charmaine to marry him for practical reasons.Some friends hire Helena as a personal shopper, through whom she meets a rather unattractive older man, Jonathan, whose wife recently died.Roy waves to the woman in the apartment across the street and learns her name is Dia. "[12]Mark Kermode also considered it the best of Allen's London films, but believed Allen was just "treading water". You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) DVD. Later, in trying to make him feel better, Charmaine tells Alfie she is pregnant. In the end, all are dissatisfied with their choices, except for Helena. This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. Afterward he reveals that his marriage is not so happy, and though Sally pauses for a long goodbye, they do not kiss.Roy happily spends many afternoons with Dia. A narrator alerts us at the outset that this tale is (to quote Macbeth) "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". Their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) has a troubled marriage with author Roy (Josh Brolin), who once wrote a successful book and is now anxiously waiting for response from his publisher about the manuscript of his newest one. Sally asks Helena for money to start her own gallery, and Helena tells her to confess her affections to Greg.Sally tells Greg that she is leaving his gallery, and that she had begun to feel close to him, seeking to see if he felt the same way toward her. of this film. Roy storms out, and Sally tells Helena she wants out of the marriage.Roy then gets even worse news: some of his friends have been in a terrible accident, and one of them, a budding novelist, has died. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 English-language Spanish–American co-production comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Pauline Collins.It premiered on 15 May 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot. The film is the fourth Allen film shot in London, following Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006), and Cassandra's Dream (2007). At first Roy is shaken, but then he remembers how great his friend's latest manuscript had been, so he decides to steal it and use it as his own.Alfie has trouble keeping Charmaine happy, so he agrees to go with her to a nightclub, where she dances with a younger guy.After Sally tells Roy she wants a divorce, he begins spending even more time with Dia, making her extremely conflicted about her imminent marriage to Alan.Charmaine buys new furs without asking Alfie, who only hints at the massive financial debt he is in.Dia calls off the wedding, greatly upsetting both her and Alan's families.Helena is excited to introduce Sally to Jonathan at the occult bookstore he owns. It premiered on 15 May 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot.[2]. Jonathan returns to Helena to tell him that his widow has agreed he can marry her. [7] Its consensus states: "It's sporadically amusing, and typically well-cast, but You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger isn't one of Woody Allen's more inspired late-period efforts. Ohjaus Woody Allen. That narrator and the chipper score are our big clues that this is a comedy. O. Scott called Allen the "great champion of cosmic insignificance" and said the film is served up with a "wry shrug and an amusing flurry of coincidences, reversals and semi-surprises. Jonathan shares her beliefs, and they receive his deceased wife's blessing for the new relationship via a séance. His favorite and constant themes of lives and deaths of the relationships, of growing older and refusing to accept it, of trying to postpone the inevitable meeting with a "tall dark stranger", of struggle to find the reason in a tale, "full of sound and fury", are all here. David Gritten of The Daily Telegraph wrote "It sounds like damning with faint praise, but Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is easily the best of his recent London-based films... a fanciful fable... with an idealised London as its setting. Jaa ohjelma. Sally is crushed, and rushes home to tell Roy that she hates Greg and wants to open her own gallery. Originally, Nicole Kidman was cast in one of the lead roles. Sinoposis You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger: Ce se You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger movie review for parents, featuring 15 categories of content including profanity, sex, violence and more He put himself through a complete body makeover and wanted out of the marriage. There were three films that topped $10,000 on the per theater chart, including one that topped $30,000. "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is every frame a Woody Allen film, but it isn't very much more. The only real pleasure one can have with "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" is with Allen's neat screenplay structure, studded throughout with all kinds of parallels, both obvious and ironic. Perhaps the title provides a clue. Sally becomes incredulous and tells Helena that Cristal is a fraud.Roy goes to see his comatose author friend with his other buddies. It is a grown up film about grown ups making bad choices and having to live with them. Helena, an older woman whose husband has left her after 40 years of marriage, goes to a psychic named Cristal for advice. Helena points out that he is married, and tells him that he will have another life after this one. Otherwise, use the following link to read our complete Parental Review. Helena helps pay their rent. Tulevat lähetykset. Helena presses him to ask her for approval of their relationship, and Jonathan says that he is still in love with her, making Helena quite upset.Roy introduces Dia to his friends, and is distressed to learn that the author whose work he has stolen is in fact not dead but in a coma, with a good chance of recovery.Alfie catches Charmaine in flagrante delicto with the man from their gym, leading to a fistfight between the two men. Helena's daughter Sally is married to Roy, who left his pursuit of a medical degree to become a novelist. Cristal points out that Helena is constantly blaming herself for the problems in her life, but she sees better times coming for her.As a narrator elucidates, Helena's husband Alfie had suddenly become terrified of dying and then became obsessed with fitness. [6], The film has received generally mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 46% based on reviews from 129 critics, with an average score of 5.4 out of 10. Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Scheduling conflicts arose because of her production company and her film Rabbit Hole. Roy falls for Dia (Freida Pinto), a musicologist he sees through a window near his and Sally’s flat, who is engaged to another man. As a result, Helena had a breakdown.Helena's daughter Sally is married to Roy, who left his pursuit of a medical degree to become a novelist. There are hints of farce, droplets of melodrama, a few dangling loose ends and an overall mood of sloppy, tolerant cynicism. [8], Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "A serviceable Woody Allen comedy that trifles with its characters rather than engaging with them."[9]A. Its point of view is of an outsider — a fortune teller, let's say, or the narrator of the film. Essentially a film about people discovering that life is largely meaningless and that delusions keep us happy and willing to move on, the film is pretty bleak and cynical. "[11] Cristal further envisions that Helena will meet a handsome new stranger.When Sally and Roy meet Alfie's new fiancé Charmaine, they are shocked by how scantily clad she is, and further by their speedy engagement. As he did with his Spanish idyll Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen supplies his fourth London film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, with an anonymous male American narrator whose air of irritatingly breezy omniscience distances us from the proceedings, limiting the empathy we may feel for the four protagonists. She was eventually replaced by Lucy Punch. Henry had just finished a brilliant manuscript he had shown only to Roy, and Roy decides to steal it and claim it as his work. A film by Woody Allen is always a must-see and his latest is no exception. As he struggles to complete his latest book, he becomes preoccupied with a young lady neighbor whom he can see in an apartment across the street.Alfie is not exactly happy living like he is 30: he eats alone, women his age are frail, and he does not relate to the young people he meets. Director: Woody Allen Cast: Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch Rating 2.5 . And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't. 2010 Ranked Ranked: Woody Allen. Alfie marries a prostitute, Charmaine (Lucy Punch). Woody Allen‘s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: ... the only thing that sets Tall Dark Stranger significantly apart from Allen’s last 15-20 films is the incredibly distracting choice of a narrator … [5], The film was released in Australia on January 17, 2013. Audience Reviews for You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Jun 29, 2013 Middling Woody, a cast of talented actors portray a bunch of not terribly interesting or for that matter likable people. Movie Review - 'You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger' - Human Hijinks, In Pursuit Of Life and Love Woody Allen's new film is more of a cynical take on human nature than a barrel of laughs. I've known people who have put their faith in religion and in fortune tellers. After a string of lunch dates with Dia, he convinces her to break off her engagement, and moves in with her. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. She has acquired from Cristal a belief in reincarnation and sees her life now as only one episode in her series of lives. As with Cristal, she speculates that sometimes illusions work better than medicine. "[7]Metacritic, which assigns a rating of 0-100 of top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 51% based on 28 reviews. His first book was a success, only his work ever since has not been as accomplished. A fortune teller and her predictions figure prominently in the story of YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, and so the title has an obvious literal meaning. Alfie gets into a fight with Charmaine over her high expenses. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=You_Will_Meet_a_Tall_Dark_Stranger&oldid=995259792, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 December 2020, at 01:43. Pääosissa Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts … Allen is still the master of his craft, the creator of charming dra-medies. Of lots of wry, clever, enjoyable humor din visele tale one of the lead roles, Mark at. 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