Sony Pictures Classics have released a horde of new images from Woody Allen’s “upcoming comedy, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.”
While the picture that stars Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Gemma Jones and Lucy Punch didn’t receive particularly good notices at Cannes we’re still curious and pretty much will always want to at least see Allen’s films; even if his late-era batting average is poor. He’s earned it.
The long form synopsis of the film goes like this and be forewarned it does reveal a lot about the plot if you’d rather see this one completely blind.
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. 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. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Freida Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. Despite these characters’ attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality, and perilous hot water. 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.
And as we noted yesterday when discussing the addition of Alison Pill to Allen’s next picture, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” is listed as having a September 23 release date on IMDB. We checked with publicists for that film who said September is correct, but no concrete release date has been set yet. Earlier reports had only pegged the release date as in the fall.