Overview
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.
My first thought after finishing this movie was “that felt really amateurish”. After all, how many times did we need to be reminded that it was just such a coincidence that the two leads ran into each other while walking down the street? Over and over again – “wow, look at my dumb luck for running into you”. But then I read some of the other reviews and saw the better way of stating how this movie feels: it feels like someone fed the last 20 years of Allen movies into an Allen AI model and this was the result. It was just so… unambitious. About the only thing that this movie had going for it is that it looks absolutely gorgeous and the people look and sound lovely (speaking French probably gave it more credibility than it deserved). The music bed running through the entirety of the movie only backed up the fact that there wasn’t much confidence in the material.
I was surprised to see that many people have said that this was his best movie in a decade, and maybe even since Match Point. I absolutely despised his last two movies (they really were unwatchable), but I would put this one only marginally ahead of those two (it didn’t make me angry while watching it, so I guess there is that). At least with Wonder Wheel and Irrational Man there was some kind of character development. Or at the very least, extremely talented actors delivering questionable dialog. This film is a regurgitation of so many movies that have come before it. I am baffled that so many people thought that this slight and extremely simplistic movie was actually good.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Coup de Chance
Movie title: Coup de Chance
Movie description: 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.
Date published: 2024-03-22
Director(s): Woody Allen
Actor(s): Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Schneider, Elsa Zylberstein, Grégory Gadebois, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Jeanne Bournaud, Anne Loiret, Sâm Mirhosseini, Sara Martins, William Nadylam, Arnaud Viard, Philippe Uchan, Alan Risbac, 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
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
My Review
My first thought after finishing this movie was “that felt really amateurish”. After all, how many times did we need to be reminded that it was just such a coincidence that the two leads ran into each other while walking down the street? Over and over again – “wow, look at my dumb luck for running into you”. But then I read some of the other reviews and saw the better way of stating how this movie feels: it feels like someone fed the last 20 years of Allen movies into an Allen AI model and this was the result. It was just so… unambitious. About the only thing that this movie had going for it is that it looks absolutely gorgeous and the people look and sound lovely (speaking French probably gave it more credibility than it deserved). The music bed running through the entirety of the movie only backed up the fact that there wasn’t much confidence in the material.
I was surprised to see that many people have said that this was his best movie in a decade, and maybe even since Match Point. I absolutely despised his last two movies (they really were unwatchable), but I would put this one only marginally ahead of those two (it didn’t make me angry while watching it, so I guess there is that). At least with Wonder Wheel and Irrational Man there was some kind of character development. Or at the very least, extremely talented actors delivering questionable dialog. This film is a regurgitation of so many movies that have come before it. I am baffled that so many people thought that this slight and extremely simplistic movie was actually good.
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My Review - 5/10
5/10