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If writer and director Woody Allen had stopped making movies after his 1977 Best Picture-winner Annie Hall, he’d still be thought of in future generations as one of the very best filmmakers of his time. Fortunately for most of us who love going to the cinema, Allen didn’t stop after that romantic comedy and, instead, carried on with the release of a new film almost every year since he and Diane Keaton lit up movie screens the world over: Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Radio Days, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets Over Broadway, Sweet and Lowdown, The Mighty Aphrodite and Match Point are but a handful of the masterpieces which he’s delighted movie buffs with over the subsequent years. It was almost inevitable with his nigh unbroken work regimen that Allen would eventually land upon the magical and golden anniversary number of 50 as far as the number of films which bear his director title card. And lo and behold, that significant fiftieth Woody Allen film has finally been completed and – better yet – has found distribution.
According to our slightly skewed reporting pals over at Variety, director Woody Allen’s 50th film – Coup de Chance – has been completed and scored a French distributor in the form of Metropolitan FilmExport. Metropolitan is a behemoth in France and this new deal with Allen ensures a huge presence, at least in that particular country. Word ‘round industry campfire has it that Coup might just be making its world premiere at no less of a hallowed film festival as the Cannes Film Festival.
As far as the plot to Coup de Chance, Allen has favorably compared it to his previous film Match Point. For fans of that little dark thriller which took some of the very best DNA from director George Stevens’ A Place in the Sun, this may indeed bode well as a fiftieth anniversary present.
Variety eroneously reported earlier that Coup de Chance was to be Allen’s final film, a major oversight which the filmmaker quickly dismissed. Perhaps that’s as it should be: I like to think of Woody Allen busy at his Underwood typewriter batting out scripts for his next fifty films; happy 50th, Woody Allen!
