YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER
Spain/USA
2010
97 minutes
A London family breaks apart when the patriarch divorces his wife of 40 years in search of a second youth and she finds solace in a psychic. Bitter, one-note comedy of human frailties that pursues Allen's recent cruel streak with a surprising vengeance, but wastes a good cast in lazy underscripting and directing.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts.
Directed and written by Woody Allen; produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Jaume Roures; director of photography (Deluxe), Vilmos Zsigmond; production designer, Jim Clay; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor; film editor, Alisa Lepselter.
A Mediapro/Versátil Cinema/Gravier Productions presentation, in association with Antena 3 Films and Antena 3 Televisión, of a Dippermouth production; made with the support of ICAA, ICIC. (US distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. World sales, Imagina International Sales.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Zon Lusomundo screening room (Lisbon), January 13th 2011.
2010
97 minutes
A London family breaks apart when the patriarch divorces his wife of 40 years in search of a second youth and she finds solace in a psychic. Bitter, one-note comedy of human frailties that pursues Allen's recent cruel streak with a surprising vengeance, but wastes a good cast in lazy underscripting and directing.
Starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts.
Directed and written by Woody Allen; produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Jaume Roures; director of photography (Deluxe), Vilmos Zsigmond; production designer, Jim Clay; costume designer, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor; film editor, Alisa Lepselter.
A Mediapro/Versátil Cinema/Gravier Productions presentation, in association with Antena 3 Films and Antena 3 Televisión, of a Dippermouth production; made with the support of ICAA, ICIC. (US distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. World sales, Imagina International Sales.)
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Zon Lusomundo screening room (Lisbon), January 13th 2011.
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