Chance is his fiftieth film.

Twenty years ago the exhibition celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. “Golden Lion” this year received the Russian film “Return Andrey Zvyagintsev. The chairman of the jury was Mario Monicelli and he was told all the colors for not winning Mark Bellocchio With good morning night. Since 1982, the year of his first out-of-competition film in Venice, Woody Allen has always sent films and actors to the lagoon to promote his films without even setting foot on the Lido, due to his notorious allergy to the awards and ceremonies he hosted. He didn’t even win in 1995, the year of cinema’s centenary, when he sent his trusted director of photography Carlo Di Palma to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: “Collecting awards for him has become almost a permanent job.he said, holding the famous figurine in his hands. But in that year – it was 2003 and today seems like a cinematic backstory – against all odds, Woody Allen decided that the Lido Anything else he would accompany him. Along with Jason Biggs, the big American boy who was his bumbling alter-ego in the film, and Christina Ricci, the former Wednesday Addams who was the (neurotic) on-screen object of desire.

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Twenty years later and a very long legal battle with Mia Farrow which even led him to defend himself against a sexual assault charge against his adopted daughter Dylan – a charge on which he was acquitted – Allen returns to the Lido in his own way: loved by moviegoerswho cultivates nostalgia for his films like a rare flower in which, while glorifying New York, he glorifies cinema capable of making people laugh and dream at the same time, hated by those who, more than in the cinema, look at this complex knots that seventh art they become more and more entangled, often strangling her. Alberto Barberawhat he really wanted in Venice Coupe de chanceagain set in Paris and filmed entirely in French for the first time, explicitly defends it: “Woody Allen was investigated twice in the late 1990s and acquitted both times.” A phrase that will not appease those who still want to protestbut who somehow wants to put an end to preventive censorship of artists.

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So, this is Woody Allen’s 50th film, a romantic thriller with Niels Schneider, Valerie Lemercier and Melville Poupot which seems to reflect the Hitchcockian atmosphere of the very famous and very successful match points. Dostoevsky was involved there, and it was London’s upper class in tennis clubs. We are located in the French capital, but always in a wealthy area. Fanny is happily married to Gene, it seems. But an encounter – by accident, hence the name – with Alain, an old school friend, awakens a passion that immediately becomes dangerous.

Other films

Having reached the age of 87 and who knows, on the last film – but let’s hope not – Allen thus returns to his beloved city spontaneously, purely, unselfishly. So much so that on December 22, 1997, he decided to celebrate his wedding in Venice with Sun Yi

, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, with whom he fell in love when she was 23 and he was 57, causing an ensuing uproar. The then mayor of Venice celebrated the ritual in the municipality. Massimo Caccari. These were the years when Woody marked his landmarks in the fishing town: a room at the Gritty Hotel, a table at Arrigo Cipriani’s Harry’s Bar. A film partially set in one of the most romantic cities in the world. Everyone is talking. I love you (1996) where he fell head over heels in love with Julia Roberts on a “Venice” postcard. in which he sang perhaps better than she did. Then followed years of gondola rides with Sun Yi, concerts at Goldoni, visiting a burnt Phoenix, when Campo San Fantin still smelled of smoke, a generous proposal for a refurbishment, a concert event in 2010 in the refurbished theater in which he, along with his band, paid tribute to the new mayor, Giorgio Orsoni, with an encore of the Bella ciao. Meanwhile, from 1982 to 2007, many films were sent to the festival, starting from the first, Midsummer Night Sexy Comedyone of his major failures, Dreams and crimes 2017, where he brought together two of the most promising actors of the time – Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. He sent films to the Lido that are still among the most important in his cinematography, such as Zelig, filmed at the same time as Sexual Comedy, as a fake documentary about the “chameleon” Leonardo Zelig, an early the paradigm of many century conformisms with an eye on Wells’ aesthetics. Or how Murder Mystery in Manhattan (1993), which brought his muse back to his side. Diane Keaton, pure comic talent, the perfect backing for Allen to tell the story of two impromptu and twisted detectives. And then Celebrities (1998), with the beautiful and busty Charlize Theron, to the point where Kenneth Branagh crashed his car on the first ear lick. AND The goddess of love (1995), which earned Mira Sorvino an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the most important role of her career.

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Now 87-year-old Allan Stewart Koenigsberg relies on chance and on the elusive that often decided for his heroes. Referring to the phrase of the writer Knut Hamsun, written, it seems, by Woody before the letter: “A business that ends well is providence; a business that ends badly is fate.“.