Exactly who are these people?
Theyre rich, obviously.
Theyre Parisian, which means that they are already fantasy figurines in the European curiosity shop ofWoody Allens imagination.
Lou de Laage in ‘Coup de Chance’Venice Film Festival
Is this actually 1953?
Or maybe 1923 the Gatsby era, where Woody Allen is clearly a very enthusiastic visitor?
Coup de Chanceis Woody Allens 50thfeature film.
Someone else seems set to get away with it.
You know, the kind of thing French people talk about.
She agrees to go to lunch with him.
He buys her a well-thumbed old edition of Mallarmes poems.
Several aspects ofCoup de Chanceare immediately striking.
One is the extent to which its crisp, light tone relies largely on Herbie Hancock.
The film also looks superb.
It is the visual language of paranoia.
Piano grooves and Storaros inventiveness cannot compensate, however, for this films lazy writing.
Even with a straight face, he seems to breathe irony.
If that happens, he will be a lucky man indeed.
