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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

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  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It's entertaining but ultimately forgettable. I wouldn't pay to see it in the cinema, put it that way. Although that would mean 2-metre high footage of Freida Pinto, so there is that...


  • #3
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,020 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Going to see it next week at the film festival.

    Is it as full as Allen's pretentious dialogue as his last few films have been? Think it's only some solid performances holding his films together (Larry David in Whatever Works is the only thing between it and disaster!).


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The only recent Allen film I've seen was Vicky, Cristina Barcelona and I loved that. I've never really found his dialogue overly pretentious in any case. *cough*unlike aaron sorkin*cough


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I saw this today at the IFI: as the narrator says at the beginning and the end, it's "a tale of sound and fury, signifying nothing": so if you go in expecting some profound insight in to humanity, you'll be disappointed.

    The humour is quite subtle in place, but quite broad in others. The main characters are all fairly upper middle-class Londoners, so when an "Essex Girl" arrives on the scene, looking and talking like something from the pages of "Heat" magazine, no-one says anything, but the looks on their faces are priceless.

    Without saying too much, I'd say that the main theme of the film is Delusion: the different ways people delude themselves in to thinking things are different to how they are in reality. That isn't news to me - I read the Atheism & Agnosticism forum too - but I did enjoy the acting, the London locations, and the way events unfold. I don't know if I'd pay to see it (it was an IFI members' preview), but I think it would appeal to fans of old-fashioned delicately-observed social drama.

    PS: on the question of "pretentious dialogue" - I didn't notice any, except in how some of the characters are a little pretentious anyway, so the dialogue is in keeping with their (deluded) characters.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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