Woody Allen announces his retirement

Woody Allen has announced his retirement from film.

While in Europe working on his 50th film, Woody Allen intended to retire from filmmaking and devote more time to writing during his twilight years. What is now set to be his last film is set in Paris and will be shot entirely in French in a few weeks.

Allen described his next film as being similar to "Match Point", in that it is said to be "exciting, dramatic and also very sinister. Allen recently wrote his fifth collection of comedy plays, 'Zero Gravity', which will be released on September 27 by Alianza in Spain. In the United States, it was published by Arcade and distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Allen toured more often in Europe as his support in the United States plunged given the accusations abuse against him. In 2020 he opened the San Sebastian Film Festival with "Rifkin's Festival", filmed in and around the tony town of San Sebastian. His relationship with the festival in the Basque provincial capital dates back to 2004 when he created "Melinda & Melinda" and in 2008 with the premiere of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona".

Starring Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel and Gina Gershon, "Rifkin's Festival" takes place during the festival, the the most important in the Spanish-speaking world.

Curiously, he announced at the press conference marking the start of production on the film that he “never thought of retiring. 'Rifkin's Festival' was backed by Spanish media giant Mediapro, which also backed two of Allen's most successful films 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', which won Penelope Cruz her first Oscar, and 'Midnight in Paris' .

Amazon Studios shelved its previous film "A Rainy Day in New York" after accusing Allen to "sabotage" the future of the film by his comments on the allegations of abuse of his daughter Dylan Farrow. He sued them for $68 million alleging breach of contract. The dispute was later settled out of court.

Allen also had problems with publishers. Hachette canceled publication of his memoir "Apropos of Nothing" after staff protests, but it was picked up by another publisher, Arcade.

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