Woody Allen continues to do the promotional rounds all around Europe, he’s coming off a successful showing of “Coup de Chance” at Venice.
The latest stop is Barcelona, and Allen is doing the usual shtick in these interviews, again saying that, of the fifty films he’s made, he’s only directed 10 good ones. He again mentions the five he’s most proud of: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Match Point,” “Bullets Over Broadway,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo” and “Midnight in Paris.”
It also doesn’t sound like he’ll be retiring anytime soon, that is if he can get financing for his next film, which would most likely come from European money. He does have a “great idea” for a film set in NYC:
"This particular story happens in New York. It's one of the best ideas I've ever had. But I have other ideas as well. There are some ideas that you can only make in some cities. But there are other ideas that can be transferred very easily.”
Allen reiterates that “someone has to come offering the money for it. I will continue to make movies as long as someone wants to finance the movies”
“Coup de Chance” currently has no distribution in the United States and it’ll likely remain that way in the foreseeable future. I can’t see anyone touching this film. Best case scenario is that we see this one suddenly popping up on VOD next year.
A French-UK co-production, “Coup de Chance” hits French theaters in late September, and is being rolled out all over Europe not too long after that. The film follows a love triangle after a Parisian wife runs into an old classmate by chance and throws her happy married life off the rails.