Title: Stroke of Luck
Original Title: Coup de Chance
Year: 2023
Info
- Country: France USA
- Language: French
- Length: 93 Minutes (1 hour 33 min)
- Budget: €10
- Genre: Comedy Drama Romance
- Topic: Love Crime
- Studios: Gravier Productions
- Distributor: Wanda Films
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Plot
'Stroke of luck' is a movie filmed in French and tells a story about two young people who start a relationship which ends in adultery and a crime. Woody Allen knows his way around this type of approach.
Niels Schneider ('I Killed My Mother', 'Heartbeats') and Lou de Laâge ('The Innocents', 'Black Box') will play Alain and Fanny, the two main characters with Melvil Poupaud ('Laurence Anyways', 'J'accuse'). Elsa Zylberstein, Valerie Lemercier, Grégory Gadebois and Guillaume de Tonquedec, who complete the cast.
This is a romantic, passionate and violent story set in the contemporary Paris. It's a "poisoned romantic thriller", with the style of 'Match Point'.
The movie 'Match Point' was also directed by Woody Allen in 2005 and is. like this new production: exciting, dramatic and also sinister", in the words of the filmmaker himself. The film, considered a return to harsh and dramatic terrain, tells the story of two young men whose connection leads to an adulterous relationship, which He will not be left alone in that.
According to the promoters of the project, it would be one of the best works of the octogenarian director of films such as 'Rainy Day in New York' or 'Midnight in Paris'. Shot all over the city and a little bit in the countryside, it revolves around a romance between two young people who are old friends and devolves into marital infidelity and ultimately crime.
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Trivia
Summer 2020
Woody Allen tried to shoot this film in Paris in summer 2020 but was prevented from doing that because of the Covid pandemic.
In words of the photography director
In the early stages of production, the director of photography Vittorio Storaro said in an interview: "I would not compare it to Match Point (2005). The script does a masterful job at mixing drama and comedy, each time calibrating them in very different ways. I can say that it takes place in the present, there will be laughter, but also dark chills."
Woody Allen accusations
Thierry Frémaux (Cannes Film Festival 2023 director) said in April 2023 that the film wouldn't be included in the festival program because of the controversy surrounding Woody Allen concerning the allegations he molested his stepdaughter Dylan Farrow in year 1992 would overshadow the film and festival.
Soundtrack from 'Stroke of Luck'
Bags' Groove
Compuesta por
Milt Jackson
Interpretada por
The Modern Jazz Quartet
When Your Lover Has Gone
Compuesta por
Einar Aaron Swan
Interpretada por
Art Farmer Donald Byrd
Arm in Arm
Compuesta por
Meredith Willson
Interpretada por
Hank Jones Kenny Burrell Milt Hinton Elvin Jones
In The Bag
Compuesta por
Nat Adderley
Interpretada por
Nat Adderley Sextet
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