At 87 years of age, Woody Allen has never been more irrelevant. That’s a damn shame to say given his legendary career, but it’s fact. His most recent film was Rifkin’s Festival three years ago and not only was it not very good, but barely anyone saw it. He basically can’t work in America anymore because actors won’t star in his movies, and for good reason. But he’s still got some cache in France, the setting for his new thriller, Coup de Chance, which will have its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Allen’s 50th movie stars Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Schneider, Grégory Gadebois, Elsa Zylberstein, Sara Martins, and Bárbara Goenaga. Basically, it sounds like an updated Match Point, which I still think is Allen’s best movie of the last 30 years and I maintain wasn’t really written by him it feels so different.
Here’s the synopsis: Fanny and Jean have everything, they are the ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional lives, they live in a magnificent apartment in the high-end districts of Paris and seem to be as in love as the first day they met. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately hooked. They see each other again, and, very quickly, get closer and closer.
Coup de Chance doesn’t have a US date, and you know what? It might not ever have one. That’s just the reality. It’ll definitely have a French release after it premieres in Venice, though.
