Coup de Chance

Coup de Chance

Two young people's bond leads to marital infidelity and ultimately crime. Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Niels Schneider, Elsa Zylberstein, Lou de Laâge, Grégory Gadebois, Jeanne Bournaud, Melvil Poupaud, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Éric Frey, Samantha Fuller, Emilie Incerti-Formentini, Christophe Kourotchkine, Naidra Ayadi, Constance Dollé, Juliette Plumecocq-Mech, Benoît Forgeard, Laura Malvarosa, Jamel Elgharbi, Bruno Gouery, Isabelle De Hertogh
  • Director: Woody Allen
 Comments
  • ballestrazjoelle - 1 June 2024
    Full of clichés and obvious translation errors for French speakers
    I watched this movie during a plane trip and I am so glad I didn't have to pay to see it. The scenario is very lazy and the ending is too absurd to make sense but had to end this way to serve Allen's message. Although I enjoyed the theme of "luck and coincidences" which was found in many subtle details, the dialogues' quality between characters is so poor that you can't help but disconnect from the plot. As a French speaker, it's unbearable to hear people use words that seemed to be poorly translated from Google. As if the French actors didn't have the heart to tell Woody Allen that this isn't how normal people speak?

    The characters were clichés, again those people aren't French people but the "idea of what Americans thing French people are". They have no depths, no passion, no emotions even when they're supposed to be angry. Robots.

    Some lines were wrongly delivered and the scene would have been then expected to be "cut" and redo but as Woody Allen had probably no idea what was said, he kept it.

    Don't get me started on the stupid jazz music that is constantly there and hence never match the energy of the plot.

    I was honestly surprised this movie came out in 2023, I thought it was shot in the late 90'. It felt more antics than fresh /new.

    Don't watch this t*rd.
  • boblipton - 7 April 2024
    Luck Be A Lady
    Lou de Laage encounters Niels Schneider on the way to work in Paris. When they were students at a French-language school in New York, he had a crush on her. Despite her marriage to Melville Poupad, an immensely successful financial advisor who rescued her from a terrible first marriage and continues to adore her -- and she him -- she begins an affair with Schneider.

    For the last fifteen or 20 years, Woody Allen has been going over themes from his earlier movies and seeing how he can improve on them. Here, he seems to be revisiting MATCH POINT, but without much, if anything new to say. Instead he shows it at great length, observing all the romantic spots in Paris he can and sneering at the idle and the super-rich. And Allen has populated the this story with physical types fans of his movies will find familiar.

    Besides not having anything new to say, Allen takes his time. 93 minutes is not an excessive length of time for a movie, but this one seemed to be very slow, ill-natured, and ultimately very simple and direct in where it was going. The only mystery that eludes me is long-time cinematographer Vittorio Storato's lighting. He fills the first half of the movie with yellow lighting; then when Poupad and Mlle de Laage renew their vows, the light turns bluish-white. Clearly there is a very simple code here, but what it is eludes me.