Woody Allen in US theaters with his movie 50

The underage Allen has almost 50 productions released under his label, as well as six decades working behind the cameras on Hollywood film sets.

His latest film Luck debuted at the Venice Film Festival in early September 2023 and received mostly positive reviews.

Aline's film is a French-language thriller about a bored wife in Paris who cheats on her wealthy, estranged husband with an old high school classmate, with disastrous consequences.

On Friday, the controversial director's 50th film premiered in US theaters and on streaming platforms, putting an end to illicit screenings.

Previously, outlets like The Hollywood Reporter reported that movie buffs were sharing “samizdat” links to Allen's latest film, a translation from French to Dutch and then to English, and that New Yorkers were attending secret screenings at a bar in the East Village. .

Regarding screenings of the film Luck, the 88-year-old director expressed, in an interview with AirMail, his disappointment with the new distribution models in theaters, and expressed his lack of interest in obtaining financing for his projects.

I don't want to have to go out and collect money. It gives me a headache. “But if someone came and called and said, 'We want to support the film,' I would seriously consider it,” the New York director said.

Distribution is no longer what it used to be. Now they only have two weeks left in the cinema (…) The whole thing has changed, and not for the better. The director of famous films such as “Annie Hall” (1977), “Manhattan” (1979), “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986), “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (1989), and “Midnight in Paris” (2011) said: “All the romanticism of cinema is over.” . ).

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