The film has a jaunty tone of deadpan glee, abetted by its soundtrack of ’60s and ’70s jazz standards. It’s not a comedy, but as you watch it you can almost see Woody Allen standing off…
. We already knew that, of course. We knew it from “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” a drama that was shocking when it came out in 1989 — and if you see it today, it’s still shocking, because the theme of the movie isn’t just that ordinary people commit murder . It’s that theydisturbingly ordinary even as they’re doing it, which is a bit frightening.
But drama! That may be another story. As you watch “Coup de Chance,” you can see that the characters occupy a milieu familiar from Allen’s beloved Manhattan , but they don’t wax on about the meaning of life and the decay of contemporary culture and all those other once-vital, now-creaky Allen obsessions. They’re actually happier than that. It’s a relief, and a pleasure, to see him write a script that isn’t rooted in “neurosis,” that’s full of vibrant players who keep surprising us.
Fanny loves Jean, and enjoys her new luxe life, but she’s a little out of sorts about it: the country hunting weekends she finds boring, all the chatter with his rich friends about money. She feels at home in Alain’s “bohemian” apartment, and as soon as he’s making her spaghetti there, they kiss. Their affair has begun, and it’s serious.
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