You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010, 98 minutes
The passions, ambitions, and anxieties of two married couples -- Alfie and Helena, and their daughter Sally and her husband Roy -- lead the lovers into trouble and out of their minds.
One night, Alfie wakes up with a sudden wave of panic over thoughts of mortality. Abandoning his wife of forty years, Alfie sets out to relive the pleasures of his youth. Devastated, Helena tries to kill herself, and then, finding no consolation from medicine and therapy, seeks out the help of a fortune teller. Before long, Helena finds the tranquility she seeks by surrendering all her thoughts and actions to Cristal's guidance. Helena's daughter Sally encourages her mother's pacifying visits to the charlatan fortune teller, as she is weary of dealing with her mother's trauma, and has marital problems of her own. Her novelist husband Roy is unable to hold a paying job and the couple live off of Helena's support and Sally's earnings as an assistant to a prominent gallery owner, Greg Clemente.