Woody Allen was given a rapturous reception as he hit the Venice Film Festival on Monday with his 50th film the French-language thriller Coup de Chance, which premieres Out Of Competition this evening.
The journalists in the press conference broke out into spontaneous applause as the 87-year-old walked into the room. “I have been very very lucky.
I have been lucky my whole life. I had two loving parents and good friends. I have a wonderful wife and marriage, two children… When I started making films all the people chose to emphasize what I was able to do well and not hold me accountable for things… they were generous,” he Allen said of his life and career.
It is Allen’s first A-list festival appearance since premiering Café Society in Cannes in 2016, with the director withdrawing from the limelight amid repeated public sexual assault allegations by adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, which he has denied.
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