Director Woody Allen has revealed plans for a new film shot in Paris. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the American director stated that he intends to move to the French capital in September to begin shooting.
He added that the film will follow “along the lines of ‘Match Point’, a kind of romantic thriller”. The 2005 London production marked a new phase in the director’s career, with works in international locations.
Allen also explained that the production will be spoken in French and will feature actors from the country.
It will be the director’s second film shot in Paris. He won the Oscar for best screenplay with the first, “Midnight in Paris”, which 10 years ago featured Marion Cotillard and Léa Seydoux, but left the main roles to American artists.
However, a source close to the project assured that the budget, which is around $ 10 million, is not yet fully guaranteed. Allen claims he has already managed to find financing with a US company, but he did not elaborate.
The director is boycotted by American distributors due to a cancellation campaign led by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, who claims she was abused by him when she was a child. The case is controversial and Allen also underwent two investigations at the time of the original allegations, when he was going through a tumultuous separation from Mia Farrow. The conclusion of the two investigations indicated that he was innocent. But three decades later, he was found guilty by the social media court when the case resurfaced amid the #MeToo movement.
For this reason, Woody Allen’s most recent film was shot in Spain: the comedy “Rifkin’s Festival” (2020), which hit Brazilian theaters in January but had no US distribution.
Source: Terra
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