Woody Allen Considers Retirement After Latest Film, Still Maintains Innocence and Calls Cancel Culture ‘Silly’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Woody Allen returned to the Venice Film Festival this weekend for the world premiere of “Coup de Chance,” a romantic thriller that marks his 50th, and he suggests, quite possibly his last, feature film.
The French-language film, playing at one of Europe’s major festivals, represents the continued mutual embrace between the director and the continent, after controversies have limited his funding stateside.
This accounts for his pondering retirement: Allen says that producing a new movie means hustling to secure backing and at 87, he’s not sure he still wants to do that kind of work. “I have so many ideas for films that I would be tempted to do it, if it was easy to finance,” he tells me when we sit down together at the Excelsior Hotel for a one-on-one interview. “But beyond that, I don’t know if I have the same verve to go out and spend a lot of time raising money.” And while independent film financing has always been a struggle, Allen has fallen out of the marketplace entirely in the U.S.
after press coverage of the allegations of sexual abuse by his daughter Dylan Farrow. When I raise this topic, Allen’s tone and demeanor shifts noticeably.
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