The disgraced director’s new film “Coup de Chance,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival,” is an exhausting and lazy retread of all his tried, true, and tired ideas.
playing a character under the age of 70 called “Rita,” and Joaquin Phoenix saying, “Where do you want to run away to? Tahiti, like Paul Gauguin?”film has uttered a single sentence that an actual person would say for the best part of 20 years. His films are filled to the gills with cheap exposition, crass character building, hollowed-out dialogue, and the odd sub-New Yorker comic strip punchline.
Fanny meets Alain quite by chance in the street—an old friend from high school who used to have a crush on her. He is a writer—a young, hopeful, idealistic man whose flame for Fanny still burns bright, while Fanny’s older husband, Jean, is a cynical money guy. Back to the plot: a series of Woody Allen things happen, and Jean decides he must put an end to his wife’s affair, by any means.
No actor can make this garbage sound believable, but some of France’s best actors, who apparently have no qualms working with Woody Allen afterMelvil Poupaud, hot off working with Roman Polanski on 2019’s, flounders in the role of Jean, playing an old-school slimebag with as much verve as he can muster, but tripping badly over Allen’s haggard men are from Mars, women are from Venus dialogue, such as, “Aren’t we fortunate, to have such beautiful wives?” Valérie Lemercier, as Fanny’s mum,...
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