The American filmmaker's latest production is coming to cinemas across France from 27 September.
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00:00 Woody Allen chose Paris as the setting of his new film Cuba's Chance, which will be
00:06 released this autumn. It's the story of a young woman who becomes embroiled in lies
00:13 and then adultery, and it's his first film shot entirely in French.
00:18 Although he's enamoured with the French capital, Allen travelled two hours south to the country's
00:23 home of cinema, Lyon, where his film premiered, and he suggested Paris has many parallels
00:29 with his home city.
00:30 New York and Paris are very similar. They're two very exciting cities. They're full of
00:31 culture, full of great music and great sights to see and great theatre and cinema. So what
00:32 you could shoot in New York, you can easily shoot in Paris and find very, very much more
00:33 beautiful locations.
00:34 I'm trying to convince myself that it's just a movie. I'm not going to make a movie. I'm
01:03 Despite being in the business for decades, 87-year-old Woody Allen isn't sure he'll be retiring in the near future.
01:13 I'm tempted for it to be my final film. It's my 50th and it's a nice round number.
01:21 So I think maybe it's a good time to stop.
01:25 On the other hand, if somebody comes to me and says, "We'd like you to make a film and we'll finance it,"
01:35 then it's very hard to say no. So I don't know.
01:39 I also don't like the way the cinema has gone.
01:43 I don't like the idea of working for almost a year on a film and then it goes for two weeks in the cinema and then it's on television streaming.
01:55 Coup de Chance is released in France, Switzerland and Belgium on September 27.
02:01 Suisse.
02:02 I'm not going to use that, I already pressed.
02:04 [SWOOSH]