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Cannes Premiere: Woody Allen’s ‘Tall Dark Stranger’
Woody Allen doesn’t play on heartstrings in his latest — he crisscrosses them.
His Cannes premiere You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger takes a handful of interconnected couples and attempts to reconnect them with each other, a rewiring with predictably haphazard results. Not exactly a comedy, it plays more as light drama and received a polite, if not rousing, reception on the Croissette.
Hard to say who the central figure is, but it begins with Helena (Gemma Jones) a desperate older woman driven first toward suicide, then to the gauzy comfort of a fortune-teller, after her longtime husband Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) deserts her for a busty, shallow prostitute (Lucy Punch — riffing Mira Sorvino in Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite).
Alfie and Helena’s horrified daughter is Sally (Naomi Watts), an aspiring art-dealer, and her husband Roy (Josh Brolin) is an aspiring novelist — the dreams of each fading along with their passion for one another. Brolin longs for the already-engaged woman in red (Slumdo …

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Which brings us to Eig’s “Get Capone,” a thoroughgoing account of the rise and fall of America’s most famous bootlegger and gangster. If there is a problem with this excellent book it is only that this reader, at least, kept recoiling from its central character. Al Capone — unlike the subjects of Eig’s previous books, Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson — was a loathsome man. Not in every respect, perhaps: As a bootlegger, or “bootician,” to use Mencken’s term, he did provide a public service. Furthermore, one can’t really criticize him for running gambling operations as even the Commonwealth of Massachusetts does that. But he was a racketeer, brothel owner, and cold-blooded killer who peddled an oily line of ham to the press. “What does a man think about when he’s killing another man in a gang war?” he asked rhetorically during an interview. The answer lay, he explained, in God’s understanding of the “law of self-defense,” and this, he believed, covered “killing a man in defense of your business, the way you make your money to take care of your wife and child.”

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… On not appearing in his films: “For years, I played the romantic lead, and then I couldn’t play it any longer, because I got too old to play it, and it’s no fun just not playing the guy who gets the girl. So unless I can think of some way to do it, no. … You can imagine how frustrating it is when I do these movies with Scarlett Johansson and Naomi Watts, and the other guys get them. And I’m the director. I’m the, you know, that old guy over there is the director. I don’t like that. I like being the one that sits across from them in the restaurant and looks in their eyes and lies to them.”
– On death: “My relationship with death remains the same. I am very strongly against it.”
“You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Allen’s 10th film at Cannes, spins a convoluted tale of troubled lives as Alfie (Hopkins) becomes obsessed with aging and leaves his wife, Helena (Jones), eventually marrying a young, gold-digging actress-prostitute (Lucy Punch).

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