These days, every time Woody Allen makes a movie, it feels like it could or should be his last. Coup de Chance is no exception.
movie I’d missed theatrically in two decades, it was something of a surrender, framed by how, even apart from the resurfaced sexual abuse allegation against the director, it felt as if other filmmakers had more ably taken over the territory long associated with him. I noted at the time that whilearrived on U.S. shores a belated two years later , I– a significantly worse movie that made watching Woody Allen pictures feel even more like a habit I lacked the fortitude to simply drop.
Speaking in the kind of pushy red flags that have become Allen’s love language, Alain pursues Fanny, and eventually they fall into an affair. The suspense of, barely a thriller but not funny or dramatic enough to qualify as much else, depends mainly on our uncertainty about which corner of this love triangle will have another corner bumped off, and whether that character will be someone we’re invited to identify with or not.
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