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Review: Woody Allen’s 50th Movie Is Striking And Looks Superb, But Can’t Overcome Lazy Writing – Venice

posted a year ago by Satan2016 (25885)
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https://deadline.com/2023/09/coup-de-chance-review-woody-allen-50th-movie-1235535971/

Coup de Chance is Woody Allen’s 50th feature film. At the grand age of 87, he has made his first film in the French language, for which all due kudos. He brings his usual potpourri of plot points – a rich couple, infidelity, an interfering mother-in-law, the aperçu that money and bookish bohemianism make restive bedfellows – to this new tale, along with some Match Point-style malfeasance. Someone is murdered. Someone else seems set to get away with it. We’re not supposed to care, however; true to his Gallic setting, Woody maintains an insistent insouciance, laced with some light philosophical musing on the role of chance in our lives. You know, the kind of thing French people talk about.

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[–] Techto (1374) a year ago

I am convinced Woody mainly makes films to place himself in close proximity to the actresses he casts to play the inevitable ingenue role he’s written into the screenplay.

[–] Crocodile (3148) a year ago

Based if so

[–] liscarkat (19031) 9 months ago

I can see that everything you think you know about Woody Allen fits into the mythology.

[–] Techto (1374) 9 months ago

Never meet your heroes — or, in Woody’s case — never let your (step) daughter meet him.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) 4 days ago

That is stupid.

[–] Techto (1374) 3 days ago

You’re right; it would be unwise to let him near any underage girl. For reference:
https://www.nytimes.com/article/woody-allen-timeline.html#:~:text=Then%2C%20in%20September%202018%2C%20New,Allen%20were%20having%20an%20affair.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) 2 days ago

Not subscribed the NYT, but vritually all of the accusations against Woody are false.

[–] Techto (1374) 2 days ago

Here’s a snippet:
June 7, 1993

Mr. Allen loses the custody battle. Acting Justice Elliott Wilk of the State Supreme Court said Mr. Allen is “self-absorbed, untrustworthy and insensitive.” He denies Mr. Allen visitation rights with Dylan.

Sept. 24, 1993

Frank Maco, a state’s attorney in Connecticut, announces that while he has “probable cause” to prosecute Mr. Allen, he would decline to press charges to spare Dylan the trauma of a trial. Mr. Maco says he believed that Dylan had been molested.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) 2 days ago

A snippet of what ... something you made up?

[–] Techto (1374) a day ago

Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn, Dylan Farrow: A Timeline
A look at major events in the complicated history of the director, his children and the Farrow family as a new documentary revisits the case.
NYTimes
Feb. 22, 2021
Link in the thread above.

No, indeed.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) a day ago

That's not true. Show me the link.

[–] Techto (1374) 21 hours ago

https://www.nytimes.com/article/woody-allen-timeline.html#:~:text=Then%2C%20in%20September%202018%2C%20New,Allen%20were%20having%20an%20affair

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) 14 hours ago

Makes no difference, Woody has enemies, he's Jewish, and Mia Farrow ( look into her sometime - 3 adopted children committed suicide ) has friends in media - otherwise that stupid documentary Farrow vs. Allen or whatever would not have been made and definitely would not have been totally biased and full of lies and mistruths.

[–] Techto (1374) 6 hours ago

Evidently Woody has shills, too.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) 6 hours ago

By the Way, Woody Allen Is Innocent (Updated)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_LtT0JT54
( an almost 3 hour fact-based documentary )

Woody never been accused of molestation before or since
the absurd notion that in the middle of a breaking up with
Mia Farrow he would suddenly decide that being in Mia's
country house with a bunch of people including adults who
Mia asked to keep an eye on Woody and who was never
out of their view for more than10 or 15 minutes that this
was the time to become a child molestor?

Mia coached Dylan and the psychologist could tell it.

One merely has to line up the real facts and ignore the
lies that have been told over and over. Soon-Yi Previn
was Andre Previn's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi was never
Woody's daughter. Read the history of Mia's insanity.

She took her own son, who looks exactly like Frank
Sinatra that he was Woody's son - and who Woody paid
child-support for, and she had his legs broken and
lengthened so he could be taller because she said only
tall people succeed in politics.

Testimony from Moses Farrow, Mia's adopted son that
Mia was not telling the truth, and constantly abused her
adopted children and treated them like servants.

Woody and Mia were not married and there are so many
demonstrable lies by Mia, that the only thing left are her
accusations that she cannot prove. And of course every
time Woody is in the new slimebuckets like you use it as
an opportunity to slander Woody again.

[–] liscarkat (19031) 9 months ago

Nope.

"Coup de Chance" is Woody Allen's best movie in a long time. If he never makes another film, this will be a good one to go out on.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9379) 4 days ago

I just finished this, and it is so well planned and constructed. I was a bit hesitant at first with the subtitles and light jazz background music, but before I knew it I was hooked into a clever but not overly complicated plot. By the climactic end I was gripping my seat. Loved this movie, and still love Woody.

All the gossip and BS that is out there about Woody is based on dishonesty and a lack of real facts and familiarity with the facts. This was a good one. 5/5

[–] coreydude (326) 4 days ago

Nah, think I'll watch "Sleeper" again