The 87-year-old American director returns with Coup de chance, a film shot in Paris, which is scheduled for release in theaters on September 27. The first film shot entirely in French, it features Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud and Niels Schneider in the cast.
Filmed last year in the capital, its distributor Metropolitan Films describes it as "a romantic and poisonous thriller". The trailer sets the scene for a Parisian couple without history, visibly in love and fulfilled in their professional life. But the young woman, Fanny, calls everything into question following an unexpected encounter with Alain, a former high school friend.
Coup de chance is not the director's first film shot in France. He had already set up his cameras in the capital in 2011 for Minuit à Paris as well as in 1997 for Everyone says I love you. Shooting this romantic thriller in French was "a way of saying thank you" to its French audience, he said in the columns of Journal Du Dimanche in November.
French and European audiences remain loyal to the director, while doors are closing in the United States. A boycott which is explained by accusations of sexual assault by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child. Despite a more lenient audience in Europe, Woody Allen's latest film, Rifkin's Festival, released in July 2022, recorded its worst score with only 89,000 admissions in French theaters.