You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010 Woody Allen & scr)

Instantly recognisable chamber piece morality tale, beautifully assembled with the usual moments of irony: especially the moment where Josh Brolin sees his ex (Naomi Watts) undressing in the apartment opposite, when up until this point he's been lusting for neighbour Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire, always in red) from the same view.

Watts herself is fixated on boss Antonio Banderas, though he's more interested in Anna Friel, and when she confronts him on the subject she is most embarrassingly turned down. Old fool Anthony Hopkins thinks his bread's been buttered by opportunistic, common call girl Lucy Punch (rather good), leaving his ex Gemma Jones to seek consolation with fraud fortune teller Pauline Collins. (Lucy apparently did the unmentionable by hugging Woody on the first day on set.)

An interesting selection of (largely classical) music rather than the usual jazz tracks; and he cleverly leaves all the tales unconcluded, letting us perhaps decide for a change what his characters will do next.

Shot by the sprightly 80-year old Vilmos Zsigmond, making the most of some of London's prettier locations in a quite unusual pallette. Note too the editing style; lots of fades between scenes rather than straight cuts.