Английская Википедия:Coup de chance

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Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lit) is a 2023 comedy-drama thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud and Niels Schneider. It premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2023, and was released in France on 27 September 2023 by Metropolitan Filmexport.

Plot

Fanny and Jean have everything of the ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the uptown of Paris and seem as in love as on the first day. But when Fanny meets, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, the situation is reversed. They see each other again and become close very quickly. Alain, now a writer, makes no secret of the fact that he has always been in love with her. At the same time, during the social evenings of her husband, who, in his profession, "makes already rich people richer", the woman finds herself increasingly uncomfortable.

Fanny and Alain thus begin an intense extramarital affair, to the point that she seems determined to leave her husband. The latter, suspicious of some details, contacts private investigators to find out if his wife has a lover, and his fears are confirmed. So, he hires two trusted criminals to get rid of Alain. After his murder, Fanny, no longer finding her lover and finding his apartment empty, becomes convinced that Alain has abandoned her due to lack of courage. She gets closer to her husband, with whom she plans to have a child.

Camille, Fanny's mother, however, learns of an old colleague of Jean who was found dead in mysterious circumstances and, although the matter had been dismissed as a suicide, she is unable to convince herself of it. Even if her daughter doesn't believe her, Camille tries to introduce this suspicion into her, which Jean becomes aware of, deciding that a new victim is needed to protect himself from any problem. He then organizes an "accident" with one of the criminals during his usual hunting in the countryside.

While Camille and Jean went into the woods, Fanny had to return to Paris to bring some medicine to her mother. Having entered her ex-lover's apartment, she discovers a manuscript of his in a drawer, and understands that there is really something strange behind it, because Alain would never have left without the only copy of his still unfinished book. In the woods, now in an isolated place, Jean takes up his rifle and points it at Camille, but he is suddenly shot down by another hunter, who mistook him for an animal.

Production

In July 2022, Woody Allen announced he would be directing a French-language thriller film. In September 2022, Valérie Lemercier, Niels Schneider, Lou de Laâge and Melvil Poupaud joined the cast of the film. In February 2023, it was announced the film was titled Шаблон:Lang.

Principal photography began in October 2022 in Paris, France.

Release

In April 2023, Metropolitan Filmexport acquired French distribution rights to the film. The film premiered out of competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2023, followed by its theatrical release in France on 27 September 2023. Coup de chance is set to be released in the United States in theaters on 5 April 2024 and on digital and VOD platforms on 12 April by MPI Media Group.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Coup de chance received an average rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 23 reviews.

Xan Brooks of The Guardian gave the film three stars out of five, stating, "The strong, credible performances oil the wheels during these clattering shifts of gear and serve to distract from its occasional moments of implausibility. Implicitly, they also invite us to turn a blind eye to some minor continuity errors." Chris Vognar of the Rolling Stone commented, "Coup de Chance moves briskly, which means two things: the film is well-paced, rendered in mostly short, crisp scenes; and it tends to skim over the surface, using its characters to make philosophical points within a larger scheme."

Leslie Felprin of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "this mostly competent but largely uninteresting, bordering-on-silly work upholds the Allen tradition of just carrying on as usual — doing the same old thing, more or less, with tiny innovations around the edges and some actors in the cast who haven't worked with Allen before." Owen Gleiberman of the Variety noted that the film "is rooted in a jaded Continental knowingness about matters of love, marriage, adultery…and getting rid of the people who are gumming up your life. The film has a jaunty tone of deadpan glee, abetted by its soundtrack of '60s jazz nuggets, notably Herbie Hancock's 'Cantaloupe Island.' It's not a comedy, but as you watch it you can almost see Woody Allen standing off to the side, chuckling at the human folly he's showing you."

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb title
• Шаблон:Rotten Tomatoes