Coup de Chance movie review. At the age of 88, Woody Allen manages to create one of his enjoyable and calm productions with the fiftieth and first French film of his career, Coup de chance. Even though Woody Allen has been ostracized by many circles, he continues to navigate the reactions, making films where coincidences are a gain or a disaster, where accidents and losses are quickly resolved and resolved around himself.
The movie “By Chance” also begins with a random meeting, which crosses its boundaries and turns into a relationship. Alain, who fell in love with Fanny, who is now married, for years without seeing her, gives her a lottery ticket as a gift during their relationship. This romantic gift actually represents the average luck of this relationship. The author even underlines the entire fate of the film with a quotation sentence. “If we don’t act before winter comes, we’ll all freeze in the ice.” he says and continues to wind the film reel.
In the film, which is a crime comedy in the style of Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, deception acts as a catalyst, while the word loss contains details that are suspicious but lead to an ending that no one could have predicted. Allen gives the impression that he persevered in producing one of his successful films despite all the rugs being pulled from under his feet!
Fanny’s husband, Jean, is not the kind of man who will be ignored and will not notice the change in love in his wife, and the film warns us from the beginning that the hunting scenes and guns in the forest will be used in this love triangle. We are starting to wait to see who is involved in this forbidden love and who might be destroyed by Jean’s treacherous plans.
While the film presents us with calm, clear and tense scenes wrapped in jazz music, it does not make us feel that it will go wrong until the last moment. In fact, Allen puts everything in between the words like a puzzle and does not allow us to find the missing piece until the last moment, which is the plus of the movie.
The idyllic flavors of the film progress from two sides and opposite poles. On the one hand, the meetings between formerly bohemian Fanny and her love Alain in different parks in Paris contain romantic moments. There are second-hand bookstores, home-cooked spaghetti, ordinary but romantic moments spent among the leaves spread on the ground, and on the other hand, there are idyllic moments spent hunting deer in the forest by a man who is proud of the fortune he has scraped with his nails and turned a room of his house into a railway track.
It is very obvious which one he will choose at that time. During these hunting sessions, Fanny reads a book or cooks in her magnificent forest house, this state of acceptance and standing back is enough for her, but Alain reunites her with the pure texture of the past. Fanny and Alain are the same; This is a refuge for the guilty, helpless and innocent! Jean, on the other hand, is someone who cannot bear to lose and is a master at eliminating the obstacles that come his way…
Even when moving to the dark side of the film, the general texture does not change, and despite minor continuity errors, Allen continues on the path he knows masterfully. The actors also help keep us in the atmosphere of the film with their strong and convincing performances. Lou de Laâge, Niels Schneider, Melvil Poupaud with their simple beauty, and Valérie Lemercier as the skeptical mother who suddenly affects the course of the film, added a new breath to the film. This forced change seems to have benefited the director, who transferred from America to Europe. The improvisational atmosphere and ballad style he added to the film manages to draw the audience in.
Coup de Chance (2024)
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Schneider, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Elsa Zylberstein, Grégory Gadebois, Sara Martins, Anna Laik, Yannick Choirat
Screenplay by: Woody Allen
Production Design by: Véronique Melery
Cinematography by: Vittorio Storaro
Film Editing by: Alisa Lepselter
Costume Design by: Sonia Grande
Set Decoration by: Geraldine Laferte
Art Direction by: Gilles Boillot
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Metropolitan Filmexport (France), MPI Media Group (United States)
Release Date: September4, 2023 (Venice), September 27, 2023 (France), April 5, 2024 (United States)
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