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Coup de chance

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, 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, former classmate Alain, she's immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and grow closer.

Top Cast

  • Lou de Laâge

    Lou de Laâge

    Fanny Fournier (née Moreau)

  • Valérie Lemercier

    Valérie Lemercier

    Camille Moreau

  • Melvil Poupaud

    Melvil Poupaud

    Jean Fournier

  • Niels Schneider

    Niels Schneider

    Alain Aubert

  • Elsa Zylberstein

    Elsa Zylberstein

    Caroline Blanc

  • Grégory Gadebois

    Grégory Gadebois

    Le détective Henri Delauny

  • Guillaume de Tonquédec

    Guillaume de Tonquédec

    Marcel Blanc

  • Jeanne Bournaud

    Jeanne Bournaud

    Linda

  • Anne Loiret

    Anne Loiret

    Delphine

Overview

Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, 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, former classmate Alain, she's immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and grow closer.

Rating

6.2 / 10
446 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • Brent Marchant
    Brent Marchant
    5 Apr 18, 2024

    If I had to come up with one word to describe writer-director Woody Allen’s latest film, it would have to be “inconsequential.” This flat, uninspired slog about the trophy wife (Lou de Laâge) of an overly possessive well-to-do Parisian businessman (Melvil Poupaud) who has an affair after a chance meeting with one of her old classmates (Niels Schneider) is close to a career low point for the famed auteur. The picture’s wooden characters routinely spout trite, at times laughable dialogue peppered with nonchalant references about privileged upscale living and obvious, shallow observations about art, poetry and culture. Then, of course, there are the tired discussions about the role that luck plays in our lives that have now been incorporated into the scripts in nearly all of Allen’s 50 films. Even the narrative feels like a retread of previous releases with elements that appear to have been culled from such offerings as “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (1989), “Match Point” (2005) and “Irrational Man” (2015), only rearranged in a lighter, less interesting configuration of those other finer works – and one with an uncharacteristic and eminently predictable ending at that. The picture’s French language script is perhaps the only distinguishing trait of this work, but that adds precious little to the finished product (except perhaps for the eye strain that viewers are likely to walk away with for having to read everything). Don’t get me wrong – Allen is one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, but this release (like many of those in recent years) is not one of his better efforts. In fact, it’s been speculated (even by the director himself) that this could be his last picture, and it’s a shame if this is how he were to end his filmmaking career, going out with a whimper instead of a bang. But, if the gas tank is empty by this point, better to quit now than to continue producing mediocre, forgettable pictures that detract from an otherwise-great body of work.

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