I see the man of your dreams

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Movie
German title I see the man of your dreams
Original title You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Country of production United States , Spain
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Woody Allen
script Woody Allen
production Letty Aronson
Stephen Tenenbaum
Jaume Roures
camera Vilmos Zsigmond
cut Alisa Lepselter
occupation

I see the man of your dreams (Original title: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger ) is a 2010 published tragic comedy by Woody Allen . The film, set in London, shows a short excerpt from the lives of two couples, Helena and Alfie as well as Sally and Roy.

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The 73-year-old Alfie has separated from his wife Helena after 40 years of marriage because of his inability to accept growing old. Instead, he marries the less than half his age prostitute Charmaine, who regularly cheats on him and ultimately ruins him financially.

Helena, who he left, is desperate and after a failed suicide attempt she is looking for help in the occult . On the advice of her masseuse, she regularly visits an alleged fortune teller, Cristal, who henceforth largely determines the moods and actions of Helena through her “prophecies”. At friends she meets the grieving widower and owner of a bookstore for occult books, Jonathan, with whom she ultimately gets together, since Cristal approves of this connection.

This external control of Helena is initially only right for her and Alfie's daughter Sally, as long as her mother is happier again. Because Sally has enough problems of her own: Her own marriage to Roy, a medical graduate and an author who is in a life and creative crisis , is anything but harmonious. Though celebrated as a promising writer after his first successful novel , Roy is struggling to work on his fourth book after his second and third works were a failure. Financially, the couple can only survive, badly, with the financial support of Helena and Sally's work as personal secretary to the successful gallery owner Greg Clemente.

Roy, annoyed by the constant arguments with Sally, regularly observes a young and pretty musicology doctoral student named Dia making music from his bedroom. One day Roy invites his Indian neighbor to lunch, from which an ever closer relationship develops. When it comes to the rejection of his meanwhile finished fourth novel by the publisher to the separation from Sally, Roy moves in with Dia. At the last second, Roy cancels her upcoming wedding to the diplomat Alan. When Roy learns that one of his friends, the quirky budding writer Henry Strangler, has died in a traffic accident, he takes the opportunity to steal his supposedly great first work and pass it off as his own. For this work he received huge advance praise from Dia's father, a translator, and his publisher. But shortly afterwards he learns that Henry did not die at all, but is only in a coma and has a good chance of recovery. He falls from all clouds.

Sally, however, falls in love with her boss, Greg Clemente. But despite a joint visit to the opera, the latter clumsily evades her hesitantly expressed advances. After Sally learns that Greg is having an affair with her friend Iris, an artist who Sally has brought to Greg's gallery , she decides to go into business with a friend. In return, she asks her mother Helena for a loan .

The film ends with Helena resisting Alfie's attempt to get back together with her and withdrawing the loan approval for Sally's gallery project, as the stars for such a transaction would be very unfavorable for an indefinite period of time, according to her fortune-teller Cristal. Alfie learns from Charmaine that she is pregnant, but distrusts her assurance that the child is his. A narrator from the off reports that human life - loosely based on Shakespeare - is "madness and delusion" and "means nothing".

Reviews

Parts of the film crew in Cannes 2010

"After a few failures, Woody Allen reveals itself to its old form: in" I See the Man of Your Dreams "he watches the adventurers as they follow illusions. A successful mixture of great metaphysics and small punch lines. "

- spiegel.de

“The reasons why“ You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger ”is“ only ”a good film, despite the massive praise, apply in a similar way to many of Woody Allen's works. The director and writer does not vary his subjects and content significantly. Comedy does not unearth great new things. As always, his critics will smear that on his bread and declare all advantages to be irrelevant with this one argument. However, that would be unfair. Everyone has their own style, which he pulls through like clockwork year after year, film by film. This makes him not a mass favorite - on the contrary, he actually gets on many people's nerves - but his loyal fan base is always happy to be able to immerse himself in the unmistakable world of the New Yorker and they will not be disappointed this time either. "

- Filmstarts.de

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

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I see the man of your dreams is Woody Allen's 41st directorial work and at the same time - after Match Point , Scoop and Cassandra's dream - the director's fourth film to be shot in London. It premiered at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival on May 15, 2010, where it was shown out of competition, and opened in the US on September 23, 2010. It was released in German cinemas on December 2, 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Buß: Tragic comedy by Woody Allen: Much curmudgeon for a birthday. In: Spiegel Online . December 1, 2010, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The film starts review of I see the man of your dreams. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER - Festival de Cannes (International Film Festival). In: festival-cannes.fr. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ I see the man of your dreams - The Woody Allen Movie. In: mann-deiner-traeume-derfilm.de. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .