Woody Allen has long been a darling of the Venice Film Festival, where films such as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Sweet and Lowdown have premiered. He returns to the event with Coup de Chance, his 50th film and his first in French. While not being the debacle served up by fellow renegade Roman Polanski, neither does it touch on the greatness of some of the American director’s earlier work. That didn’t stop critics applauding his name before the film had even started, such is the reverence he enjoys in Italy; political correctness be damned!
