52. FEST: Coup de chance

Fanny and Jean look like the ideal married couple. They’re both professionally accomplished, they live in a gorgeous apartment in an exclusive neighborhood of Paris, and they seem to be in love just as much as they were when they first met. But when Fanny accidentally bumps into a writer. Alain, a former high school classmate, a writer, she’s swept off her feet. They soon see each other again and get closer and closer…

Screenplay: Woody Allen

Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro

Editing: Alisa Lepselter

Cast: Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Schneider, Grégory Gadebois, Guillaume De Tonquédec, Elsa Zylberstein…

Producers: Erika Aronson, Letty Aronson

Production: Gravier Productions, Dippermouth, Perdido Productions, Petite Fleur Productions

Print Source: MCF MegaCom Film

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is one of the best known and most respected names in the movie industry. His career of being a writer, director, actor and producer spans over 60 years and still thrives. After writing routines for comedians and performing as a nightclub comic, he wrote the Broadway play Don’t Drink the Water (1966). His early films, such as Bananas (1971) and Sleeper (1973), combined highbrow comedy and slapstick. Later romantic comedies such as Annie Hall (1977), which won him two Academy Awards, and Manhattan (1979) offered a bittersweet view of New York life. His other notable films include Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).

Filmography:

2023 Coup de chance

2020 Rifkin’s Festival

2019 A Rainy Day In New York

2017 Wonder Wheel

2016 Café Society

2015 Irrational Man

2014 Magic in the Moonlight

2013 Blue Jasmin

2012 To Rome With Love

2011 Midnight in Paris

2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona

2005 Match Point

1999 Sweet and Lowdown

1996 Everyone Says I Love You

1994 Bullets Over Broadway

1992 Husbands and Wives

1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors

1986 Hannah and Her Sisters

1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo

1984 Broadway Danny Rose

1979 Manhattan Murder Mystery

1978 Interiors

1977 Annie Hall

1973 Sleeper

1972 Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex

1969 Take the Money and Run

1966 What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

Festivals:

2023 – Venice Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival

Reveiws:

“Has more spirit and joie de vivre than anything Woody Allen has done in a while.”

-Jonathan Romney, Screendaily

“Coup de Chance is variously funny and sad, energetic and easygoing.”

-Xan Brooks, The Guardian

“It’s not a comedy, but as you watch it you can almost see Woody Allen standing off to side, chuckling at the human folly he’s showing you.”

-Owen Gleiberman, Variety