Woody Allen Booed On Red Carpet At Venice Film Festival Premiere Of His Film ‘Coup De Chance’

Director Woody Allen, 87, made an appearance with his wife, Soon Ye Previn, 52, at the Venice International Film Festival on Monday. But the reception might not have been what he expected: he was loudly booed by many of the press and fans in attendance.

At the red carpet event, Allen premiered his latest and 50th film, Coup de Chance.

In addition to his wife of 25 years, their children Bechet, 24, and Manzie, 23, were also present to support their father.

Allen and Previn married in 1997, six years after they reportedly began their controversial relationship. While their age gap of 35 years may be questionable to many, their romance became national news not because of the age difference but because Allen had been in a 13-year relationship with Previn’s adoptive mother, Mia Farrow, when they reportedly began their affair.

Approximately one month after Allen and Previn became involved, Farrow found nude photos of her then-21-year-old daughter in Allen’s house.

Allen defended their relationship when he told Time magazine in 1992, “I am not Soon-Yi’s father or stepfather. I’ve never even lived with Mia. I’ve never in my entire life slept at Mia’s apartment, and I never even used to go over there until my children came along seven years ago. I never had any family dinners over there. I was not a father to her adopted kids in any sense of the word.”

While Allen may not have been a father figure to Previn, he and Farrow share their biological son Ronan, 35, and their two adopted children, Dylan, 38, and Moses, 45.

At the 80th Annual Venice International Festival, Allen’s latest film is celebrated but will reportedly not be shown on U.S. screens, as Hollywood ended their ties with the director after HBO released a four-part docuseries, Allen v. Farrow.

The 2021 documentary included a home video of a 7-year-old Dylan, saying Allen had touched her “private parts.”

Asked about how he felt about the documentary, Allen said that his “reactions has always been the same.”

“The situation has been investigated by two people, two major bodies, not people, but two major investigative bodies,” he told Variety. “And both, after long detailed investigations, concluded there was no merit to these charges, that, you know, is exactly as I wrote in my book, Apropos of Nothing.”

He continued, “There was nothing to it. The fact that it lingers on always makes me think that maybe people like the idea that it lingers on. You know, maybe there’s something appealing to people. But why? Why? I don’t know what you can do besides having it investigated, which they did so meticulously. One was less than a year and the other one was many months. And they spoke to everybody concerned and, you know, both came to the exact same conclusion.”

Coup de Chance (Stroke of Luck) is set to be released in French cinemas on September 27.