Film Review – Coup de Chance

Many people, including myself, believed 2020’s “Rifkin’s Festival” would be the final film for writer/director Woody Allen. However, the 88-year-old helmer stays committed to his career, taking his business to Paris for “Coup de Chance,” reemerging with a darker tale of love and death in France. Allen’s visited the cruel edges of humanity before, plenty of times, and largely remains minimal and somewhat sinister with this, his 50th feature-length endeavor. It’s not a suspense piece, but more of a moody offering from Allen, who examines the whirlwind of attraction and the strain of marriage in the effort, taking the tale into bleak areas of jealousy and mistrust while lingering on his love of conversation and peculiar character business. “Coup de Chance” is Allen’s best picture in a decade, easily topping recent forays into mediocrity with a reasonably tight and mildly twisted tale that’s capably performed by the cast. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com