London-based drama that seemed particularly nasty minded compared to his recent output. Humor, even of the mocking sort, has gone completely now. Instead we are presented with selfish, duplicitous characters who make bad decisions that hurt themselves and those in their lives. Even though people are connected they ignore each other's needs, do what they want the consequences be damned.
The title comes from one of the characters...a moronically credulous dumped wife...seeing a fortune teller...an obvious fraud...and taking her as a believable seer. None of this is funny or clever.
Allen seems to have contempt for his characters in this film who, while being hyper articulate, nevertheless do very stupid things. He's become quite dyspeptic with age...maybe cynical is the better term. Too bad. Without the leavening of wit life is just ugly.
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