After the rather disappointing Rifkin's Festival, Woody Allen perseveres in his European tropism. His fiftieth film, Coup de Chance, will bring together a 100% French cast. Always very popular on the Old Continent, where he makes his best scores, the 87-year-old director has found a land of asylum in France. He is indeed in disgrace across the Atlantic, after the accusations of sexual assault made by his adopted daughter.
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Coup de Chance presents itself as a "poisonous romantic thriller" at Match Point (his 2005 film, Editor's note), according to its director and screenwriter. The film tells the story of Fanny (Lou de Laâge) and Jean (Melvil Poupaud), a couple to whom everything smiles but whose infidelity will ultimately lead to crime. Shot last year in Paris in the greatest secrecy, it also brings together Valérie Lemercier, Elsa Zylberstein, Niels Schneider, Grégory Gadebois and Guillaume de Tonquédec.
Woody Allen has already toured in the City of Light, including Tout le monde dit I love you, in 1996, or Midnight in Paris in 2010. This is his first film made entirely in the language of Molière, which he does not master, but which is spoken fluently by his daughter Manzie who assisted him on the set. A way for the filmmaker to pay tribute to his French audience: "When I dared more experimental projects, [the French] followed me and encouraged me more than the American public. Making a film in France is a way of saying thank you," he explained in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche published last November.
The film will be released in French cinemas on September 27. It is not known at this time if it will receive an American distribution.