“Coup de Chance”, interview with director Woody Allen

September 7, 2023

Woody Allen, director of "Coupe de Chance": "You're very dependent on chance and luck in life, more than you think".

"Coup de Chance", interview with director Woody Allen Chiara Nicoletti

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“This is my 50th movie. It was a great privilege to have made it in Paris and it’s a great honor to show it in Venice”, these are the enthusiastic words of director Woody Allen about his participation, out of competition, to the 80th Venice International Film Festival with “Coup de Chance”. The director of iconic films such as “Manhattan” and “Match Point”, confirms, through his first film in French, how “we are all very dependent on chance and luck in life, more than you think we are” as the fictional lives of Fanny (Lou de Laâge), Jean (Melvil Poupaud), Alain (Niels Schneider) and the mystery surrounding them, shows. Woody Allen also explains how he stays true to the core of his cinema while shooting in other countries, especially European ones like France, Italy and Spain: “These countries have very pronounced personalities and if I have a good idea for that country, I would certainly make a film about it”.

Plot

Coup de Chance is about the important role chance and luck play in our lives. 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 Alain, a former high school classmate, she’s swept off her feet. They soon see each other again and get closer and closer...

Written by: Chiara Nicoletti

Melvil Poupaud Niels Schneider