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Woody Allen, with his cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (left), on the set of Stroke of luck. © 2023 Gravier Productions, Inc. Photography by Thierry Valletoux/Metropolitan Filmexport
INTERVIEW – The American director leaves Stroke of luckits 50e film, a collection of short stories, and completed a European tour with the New Orleans Jazz Band. Interview with a filmmaker full of vitality at 87 years old.
From Place de l’Etoile to Madeleine, the streets are blocked. This September 20, Charles III is visiting Paris, and the city is upside down. Far from this hustle and bustle, in a suite at the Bristol, Woody Allen gives interviews before meeting his French publisher for the first time, Manuel Carconne. Stock publishes his collection of short stories, Zero gravity after his autobiography, By the wayreleased in the midst of Covid-19 in 2020.
Meeting Woody Allen feels like walking through the screen, like in The Purple Rose of Cairo, and to find yourself in a Woody film. Same flow, same pace, same gles. At 87, the New Yorker still seems alert. To the point of considering a 51e movie after Stroke of luckhis first feature film in French, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
LE FIGARO. – You are completing a European tour with the New Orleans Jazz Band. Aren’t you tired?
Woody ALLEN. – This morning again I was in Barcelona, after Lisbon, Lyon…
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