Woody Allen assures that his new film will be a way of “giving thanks” to the French public

American film director Woody Allen Filming in Paris for his 50th film, “Wasp22″, his first in French, finished this week, with which, he said, he wanted to “thank” the French public.

French moviegoers “loved and supported the young foreign director” he was in “Take the Money and Run” (1969), Allen recalls in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche weekly.

“When I dared to do more experimental projects, they followed me and encouraged me more than the American public”, Add.

“New York is not a very nice place anymore, I’m glad to get some fresh air elsewhere” says the 86-year-old director, who saw the US movie industry turn its back on him when his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, accused him of sexually assaulting her as a child.

Allen rejects these accusations. Neither of the two investigations launched against him yielded results.

The filmmaker described “Wasp22,” his first film shot in French — a language he doesn’t speak — as “a detective film, a serious story of crime and punishment. With a dose of romance, of course.”

Allen is aware that the film will probably “make less money in America”because, according to him, “The public there does not like subtitles”.

The New Yorker, winner of four Oscars, says he already has “a script in mind” for his next film, but if he cannot “make another feature film after this one” he will dedicate himself to the theater or “write books.”

“I’ve always found people to finance my films, but nowadays it’s difficult: the public now watches movies at home, in their bed (…) It’s not so exciting anymore”, He says.