Woody Allen doesn’t consider any of his films to be masterpieces.
Speaking with the Greek magazine “K” at the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of Coup de Chance, via World of Reel, Allen, who is 87, said he doesn’t believe he ever made a masterpiece while reflecting back on his career.
“I had all the advantages,” he said. “I was making money, I had complete artistic freedom, and I could make exactly the movies I wanted, one after the other. I made some good ones, but no masterpieces. And because I didn’t make a masterpiece, I feel like I let myself down. Someone who had my opportunities should have made two or three masterpieces. Not just some good mid-fifties.”
Allen has directed over 50 films during his lifetime so far, including 1977’s Annie Hall, 1979’s Manhattan, 1989’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1994’s Bullets Over Broadway 2011’s Midnight in Paris, 2013’s Blue Jasmine. Prior to Coup de Chance, his latest was 2020’s Rifkin’s Festival starring Wallace Shawn, Gina Gershon, and Elena Anaya.
Coup de Chance: Allen’s latest is a French thriller releasing in September
Coup de Chance is a French thriller starring Niels Schneider, Lou de Laage, Valerie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Grégory Gadebois, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Sara Martins, Bárbara Goenaga, Arnaud Viard, and Anne Loiret.
“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,” the synopsis reads. “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 arrives in French cinemas on September 27, 2023. Whether or not the film will receive American distribution is unknown at this time.
