The controversial director secures French actors for his latest, a thriller in the vein of 'Match Point' and 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' but without the verve.
Incredibly, Woody Allen has made another movie. The lush-looking moral thriller “Coup de Chance,” about infidelity and murder in the City of Light, is his 50th feature. It has been speculated to be his last, even by Allen, who is 88. Then again, he’s had many 'last' movies, if you count the actors who’ve said they regret working with him, the financing arrangements that have shuttered and the audiences who have given up on him as a onetime creative giant running on fumes.
The result at times carries the whiff of something simultaneously refreshing and nostalgic: less a vacation project and closer to an imagined hybrid of Dostoevsky, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, in which an inconvenient romantic spark leads to cold-blooded problem-solving. Our way in is young Parisian auction-house executive Fanny , who runs into her old school pal Alain .
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