'It was only a kiss': Woody Allen sparks more controversy in Venice with World Cup comment
The veteran film director made the comments in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo. He is in Europe at the moment for the Venice Film Festival, where his new film premiered.
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00:00 And the controversy swirling around Spanish football had its match in Venice, where the
00:06 director Woody Allen arrived to promote his French-language thriller, Coup de Chance.
00:14 His reputation was sullied by a 1992 claim he'd sexually assaulted his adopted daughter,
00:20 a claim he vehemently denied. At Venice, the four-time Oscar winner preferred to reflect
00:25 on his good fortune.
00:32 I've had over my lifetime much undeserved praise and enormous amount of attention and
00:39 respect and so I have nothing but good fortune and I hope it holds out. Of course it's early
00:48 this afternoon so...
00:50 I met a guy I hadn't seen since high school.
00:55 I was really impressed, he recognised me.
00:58 The 87-year-old filmmaker's French-financed 50th feature was out of competition at Venice.
01:03 Its subject is luck. Allen said he'd happily film in New York again if he was lucky enough
01:08 to find someone crazy enough to finance one of his films there.
01:17 A man who could have been cinema's eminence grise struggling to shake off a taint of sleaze.
01:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:28 (whooshing)