The lawn is definitely greener in “You will definitely Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Woody Allen’s roundelay of perplexed figures chasing illusions instead than truth.
CANNES — The grass is obviously greener in “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Woody Allen’s roundelay of perplexed figures chasing illusions instead than truth. The comedy is more amusing than many, though it lacks the vibrant character of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona. as being a movie from Allen’s ongoing British/European duration, where he spins down comic trifles or morality plays that drift apparently free from national context” this might be Woody in a bemused mood, devilishly complicating their characters’ lives with follies and foibles of the very very own generating until he ties each protagonist as a comic pretzel. Then a tea is taken by him break. Its Cannes launch can simply assist “Stranger” in those European regions where their movies have a tendency to find receptive audiences. Home, the movie is going to do modest company along the lines of most of their comedies. The film’s multiple stories that are london-based concern characters looking for shortcuts to delight. Every one thinks that if perhaps X can happen, I quickly can live cheerfully ever after. But even in the event that have been real, no body has any persistence: Each is decided to seize X immediately. Obviously, a fortune-teller that is fake isn’t that the redundancy? — gets included.
Anthony Hopkins’ Alfie — possibly a wink and a nod to Michael Caine’s ’60s-era intimate predator — awakens one morning to find out that he’s old and married to a spouse, Helena (Gemma Jones), associated with the exact same age. So he bolts marriage for a regime of strenuous exercises and bachelor quarters. If this does not swiftly restore their youth, he chooses to marry a call girl, Charmaine (Lucy Punch), in hopes she will offer him a son. [Read more...]