You will meet a Tall Dark Stranger Movie Reviews

This one's straight out of a fairy tale...turned splitsville. Picture this. Couple 1: Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones) have lost interest in each other 40 years after marriage. No morning walks. No moments in bed. The outcome? One looks for love outside marriage in the form of the too-hot-to-handle blonde, Charmain (Lucy Punch), the other takes to the inhibitions-are-better formula, courtesy a charlatan fortune teller.

A deluded Alfie (Hopkins), yearning for a male child, ditches his wife Helena (Jones) for a nubile (and air-headed) escort Charmaine (Lucy Punch). Initially succumbing to despondency, Helena is uplifted to the point of annoying smugness by ministrations of the fraudulent soothsayer Crystal. Despite being married to Roy (Brolin), Sally (Alfie and Helena's daughter) secretly fancies her boss (Banderas), owner of an art gallery. While Sally dreams of bearing a child

The lilting texture of Leon Redbone singing, 'When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires will come to you...' opens the black and white credits of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Only this is not Walt Disney, it's Woody Allen. Therefore, unlike Pinocchio, the protagonists of this film may or may not get their wish granted and even if they do, it might not exactly be in a class of conventional fairy-tales.

First, the good news. For once, a new Woody Allen film is at our multiplexes within a couple of months of its international release. On the downside, though, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger isn’t one of the prolific writer-director’s livelier late-period comedies. There is a lack of any sort of spark in the romantic entanglements of four members of a family in search of love and fulfillment. Rather, the confection is as flavourful as an overbaked soufflé.

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. Even perhaps compensated for the fact that You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger doesn’t really have any kind of an ending. The pleasure in an Allen film has always been how he takes us there, his protagonists mostly struggling with life’s little, ever so little, odds and emerging a little, ever so little, wiser

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a tale of love, lust and longing set in London. In quick succession, writer-director Woody Allen introduces us to an array of characters who are all caught in their individual hells. So Josh Brolin, wearing a strange thatch of hair plays Roy, a novelist whose career is nowhere as shining as he had imagined it would be. His mother-in-law helps to pay the household bills and at one point, he works as a chauffer.

There are two people who come to my mind first when I think of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Woody Allen and Frieda Pinto. These are the two people that made me want to watch the movie - Allen because of his great body of work, and Freida because I could never get the hype around the actress. For me, appearing at Red Carpet extravaganzas in designer labels and posing for shutterbugs isn’t qualification enough but since the paparazzi had made such a big deal

A story of four married couples. Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones) get divorced and he gets married to an 'actress.' Helena loses her bearings and starts living her life based on the advice of a charlatan. Meanwhile, her daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin) are going through a crisis of their own fuelled by their financial condition. Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a struggling novelist

Frieda Pinto’s real talent lies in propelling her career forward by milking miniscule appearances to the max. In this Woody Allen-directed dud, this Malad girl speaks with an Orlem-meets-Brick Lane accent and is decked out in scarlet, but that doesn’t really lift the girl-next-door’s insipidity. But she did catch Woody Allen’s attention, a feat that the film fails to perform. There’s Helena (Gemma Jones) who is traumatized because her husband