Woody Allen presents “You Will Meet a tall dark stranger” at Cannes

Posted on May 16, 2010 by julie

With “You Will Meet a tall dark stranger”, presented Saturday in Cannes, Woody Allen continues his romance series. Woody Allen`s “You Will Meet a tall dark stranger” signs a London comedy that crosses from ultra-simple to morality: because life ends badly, as long as possible maintain the illusion of life .
Accustomed to Cannes, but still out of competition, Woody Allen, who is fielding a forty films to his name, this film tells the unlikely title “You meet a handsome stranger”, the quarrels of characters who intersect, uncrossed, is recross and finally up a little bit of humanity.
The film is placed under the auspices of entry mentioned in Shakespeare’s voice: “Life is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Meanwhile, all the protagonists of the film want to change lives, one of whom is even convinced that he will live several more.
Helena (Gemma Jones,), a real English-gloved mitts on the hook, wants to give meaning to his life, his daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) would have a child, opening her own art gallery and sleep with her boss (Antonio Banderas ), her husband Roy (Josh Brolin) desperate to publish his second novel and would win his delightful neighbor, seen through the window. The last slide (Freida Pinto, Slumdog Millionaire seen in), does not know if she wants her boyfriend and is certain she no longer. Without forgetting the first husband of Helena, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) who married Charmaine (Punch Lucy), escort girl in physique. Viagra helping, he exchanged his account against her charms.
Still lacks a key figure: Crystal (Pauline Collins), fortune teller consulted throughout the film by Helena, whose predictions appear to finally cover the entire world, Roy Alfie, Sally Dia.
And fate, terrible demiurge, is also evident. Roberts, whose last book was eventually turned down, steals the unpublished novel of another writer, more talented than him and given up for dead in a car accident. But the irony is biting reveal …
By attending this new piece of the small theater of Woody Allen, you smile, laugh often. It also squeaks when, under the irony of the New York filmmaker, a point about Stoic philosopher.
Woody Allen has also confirmed at the press conference that followed the film: “I am against death. And then put some aphorisms and truisms: “Aging is not fun,” “One must live in the illusion to live” or “To get a good film, it must hire good actors.”
Asked about the title, it was more serious and stressed its ambiguity: it may be the handsome stranger, of course, but “also from abroad we will all meet and we did not wanted to meet.
With “You Will Meet a tall dark stranger” is the fourth time that the American filmmaker sets his scene on the banks of the Thames, an English capital “which the gray skies are perfect for photography,” he said.
We know that his next film will be in Paris and will include as lead actresses Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Marion Cotillard. To facilitate the transition, Woody Allen’s announcement in a nod to the end of “You Will Meet a tall dark stranger”. Helena, sitting with her new lover on a park bench a little sun bathed English, says she likes France, which seems plausible, and it adds greatly appreciates Jeanne D’Arc, which is frankly the least.