30\12\2010
Written by Loes
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen’s latest movie You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger tells a tale of two desperate couples seeking for love and happiness. While this might sound somewhat corny or boring, this movie proves to be totally different.
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.
A-list actors like Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts and Gemma Jones play the movie’s main characters and Allen’s typical way of combining loneliness and passion gives the story a touching side.
Short synopsis: Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy all struggle with their passions, ambitions, and anxieties. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortuneteller. Must see!