(Paris) American filmmaker Woody Allen announced that he was starting filming in Paris on Monday for his 50e feature film, Wasp22the first in French.
Posted at 1:54 p.m.
It is “a dark comedy in the spirit of Match Point “said in a press release the 86-year-old director who saw the industry turn its back on him when his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow accused him of having sexually assaulted her when she was a child.
Woody Allen denies these accusations for which neither of the two investigations launched resulted.
Ostracized in the United States since #metoo, the four-time Oscar-winning New Yorker has continued to find a loyal following in recent years in Europe and especially in France.
But his last film, Rifkin’s Festivalfilmed in Spain, in San Sebastián, with the French actor Louis Garrel in particular, gathered only 89,000 spectators there when it was released in July.
For Wasp22Woody Allen will work for the fifth time with Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now), his partner since Coffee Society.
When exiting from A rainy day in New York in French cinemas, in 2019, Woody Allen had suffered many controversies, some actors publicly distancing themselves from him, while others, such as American actresses Scarlett Johansson or French actress Catherine Deneuve, supported him and asserted the presumption of ‘innocence.