Woody Allen announces that he will retire with his 50th film, which will be shot in Paris

Woody Allen is poised to end his prolific directing career following his 50th film. The New Yorker told La Vanguardia that the film he is currently shooting in Paris will be, “in principle,” his latest film. Allen has no intention of retiring to rest, but he would like to start writing his first novel: “My idea, in principle, is not to make more films and focus on writing” He commented on the Spanish newspaper.

This is not the first time he talks about his intention to retire soon. In an interview on Alec Baldwin’s Instagram account last June, he had already released: “I’ll probably make one last movie. Much of the excitement is gone. When I made a film, it came out in all the cinemas in the country. Now you make a movie and you have a couple of weeks at the cinema. Maybe six or four weeks and then it’s straight to streaming or paid rental. It’s not the same. I don’t enjoy it anymore. It’s not as fun as making a movie and putting it out in theaters. It was a great feeling to know that 500 people saw it at the same time … I don’t know how I feel about making films anymore. I’ll do another one and see how it feels. “.

What will apparently be his latest feature film will take place in the French capital and will be a film shot entirely in French. While he didn’t reveal many other details, Woody Allen stated he would be a “Poisoned Romantic Thriller” which would be very much in line with “Match Point”. The director got the funding with some troubles, as the North American industry has turned its back on him in recent years due to Dylan Farrow’s recriminating allegations against him. Amazon broke the four-movie deal he signed with Allen and the director sued them, demanding $ 68 million. Finally, he reached an agreement with the company before going to trial. ‘Rainy day in New York’, a film under the deal, managed to hit theaters with considerable difficulty. A year later he released “Rifkin’s Festival”, his last film to date, shot in Spain with a cast of Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya and Louis Garrel, among others.

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Woody Allen, one of the Seventh Art’s most influential directors and screenwriters, made his backstage debut with “Take the Money and Run” in 1969. The 86-year-old director had few flaws in his annual big-screen rendezvous, giving us indisputable classics such as’ Annie Hall ‘,’ Manhattan ‘,’ The Purple Rose of Cairo ‘,’ Hannah & Her Sisters’, ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’,’ Manhattan Murder Mystery ‘,’ Mighty Aphrodite ‘,’ Chords and disaccordi ‘,’ The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ‘,’ A Hollywood Finale ‘,’ Match Point ‘or’ Midnight in Paris’. In her career she has won four Oscars.

In recent years, his films, which have not garnered critical and public support as before, have been overshadowed by the controversy with his daughter Dylan Farrow, pushed by the #MeToo movement. In May 2020, the Spanish version of “Apropos of Nothing”, her autobiography, arrived in bookstores, which also had problems in publishing when the publisher who would have launched it initially lost. On September 27th “Gravity zero” is released, a book of stories.