The film, a thriller about a crisis that hits an apparently happy couple in Paris, returns to the importance of chance and luck in life, a key theme of his 2005 romantic drama Match Point, hailed as a masterpiece in Italy.
Asked about his obsession with death, which he shares with his late idol Ingmar Bergman, the almost 88-year-old cult auteur said, “there’s nothing you can do against it, it’s a really bad thing that exists”.
“We can only not think about it, distract ourselves form it.”
Coup de Chance is Allen’s fiftieth film.
“It was a great privilege to have made it in Paris and it’s a great honour to show it in Venice,” he said.
Talking on Monday ahead of its premiere, Allen also said he had “always been lucky in life”.
“I had parents that loved me, wives and children, and at almost 88 years of age, I’ve never been in hospital even for a day.
“As a director, too, it has gone okay for me and I hope this good luck continues for me.”
According to the synopsis of Coup de Chance on the festival’s website, the film is about “the important role chance and luck play in our lives. Fanny and Jean look like the ideal married couple—they’re both professionally accomplished, they live in a gorgeous apartment in an exclusive neighbourhood of Paris, and they seem to be in love just as much as they were when they first met.
But when Fanny accidentally bumps into Alain, a former high school classmate, she’s swept off her feet. They soon see each other again and get closer and closer, and that’s when the trouble begins.”
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