You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
Directed by Woody Allen
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
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Having already plundered London (Match Point, Scoop, Cassandra's Dream, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) and various locations in Spain (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), it was only a matter of time before he found his way to the place that Bogie and Ingrid Bergman would always remember.
Midnight in Paris is like enough to Vicky Cristina Barcelona as to be cousins: both are at heart incredibly sentimental tributes to a particularly gorgeous European city, both of them essentially larks, satisfying little comedies with very little snap or bite - as Allen ages, he seems increasingly less able to marry drama and comedy the way he used to, though I'd defend You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger on that front, and would be rather lonely doing so.
Allen seems to have put a lot more care and thought into his visuals here than he did in his most recent prior film, " You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger ," which seemed to just lurch from one scene to the next.
A charming, whimsical and beautifully shot romantic comedy, and a big rebound from last year’s disappointing “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger”, “Midnight in Paris” is one of Allen’s top efforts of the new millennium, and a strong contender for an Academy Award Best Screenplay nod, which would be his 15th such nomination.
Even the movie’s that have won critical attention (like Match Point, Vicki and, in some quarters at least, last year’s underrated You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger) haven’t clicked with moviegoers, with few outside of Allen’s die-hard fanbase turning up to see them in theaters.
Punch, a British actress who's appeared in " Hot Fuzz " and Woody Allen 's " You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger ," practically walks away with the film as she constructs a comic monument of simpering and frantic dissembling.