Woody Allen retires. The director, who is preparing to shoot his fiftieth film in France in a few weeks, announced to the Spanish newspaper his decision to stop cinema The vanguard.
Now he intends to devote himself to writing. “My goal is to stop making movies and focus on writing. At the moment, I’m thinking more of a novel,” says the filmmaker, who does not plan to write his autobiography right away.
“I don’t have so much fun anymore”
In an interview with Alec Baldwin last June, Woody Allen briefly mentioned his desire to quit acting. “I’m probably going to do that bonus movie, but a lot of the excitement has evaporated,” he had said.
“I don’t have as much fun making a movie and bringing it to the big screen anymore,” he added, referring to the changes in the film industry with the advent of streaming. “I’ll do another one and then see how I feel.”
A new “very sinister” movie
This new film, shot in France and in French, would be along the lines of Turning pointaccording to Woody Allen. “It will be exciting, dramatic and also very sinister,” said the 86-year-old filmmaker, who just released Zero gravitya collection of comic tales.
Woody Allen, fell from grace in the United States after his adopted daughter accused him of sexually abusing her when she was a childhas always been very popular in France and has toured several times in Paris, in particular for midnight night in paris.
Released last July rifkin festivalHowever, Woody Allen’s latest film fared worse than its predecessors, with almost 89,000 admissions, the director’s worst score in France.
Source: BFM TV
