After his fiftieth film, A Stroke of Luck, entirely shot in France and spoken in French, Woody Allen will continue his European sojourn, partly forced, because — according to El Mundo — his Madrid-shooting project has materialized, funded in part by the Spanish state. At 90 years old, the director has slowed his behind-the-camera commitments, intensifying his literary activity, but it seems the prospect of seeing him back at work isn’t that distant (in the photo above he was on the latest set, alongside the director of photography Vittorio Storaro).
Woody Allen, when do the shoots on the Spanish film begin
It isn’t Woody Allen’s first foray into Spain; many will recall Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) with Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, and Javier Bardem, but even the penultimate Rifkin’s Festival (2020) was set in San Sebastián. However, what is scheduled to start shooting on October 5 in Madrid should be his first fully Spanish-language film. With an estimated budget of $12 million, the feature will apparently receive sovvenzioni from the Madrid province and the city amounting to €3 million. Compounded by his advanced age of 90, but more so by the MeToo wave that since 2017 has sidelined him from American cinema, Allen has slowed his pace of filmmaking, as his fans—quite supportive—will surely note, on average of about one project per year until recently. His latest work dates back to 2023 and is A Stroke of Luck, his first entirely French feature in all respects (in language and production), starring Lou de Laâge, Melvil Poupaud and Niels Schneider. Last year Allen made his debut as a novelist with “What Happens to Baum?“, but as early as 2020 his memoir Apropos of Nothing was already appreciated. Both volumes were published in Italy by La Nave di Teseo. Not to forget his theatrical work, still in Europe, where between 2024 and 2025 he presented the plays “A Brooklyn Fairytale” and “Pure Madness” in Budapest. In the past year in the USA, the public perception of him hasn’t improved with the surfacing of some emails exchanged by Soon Yi with Jeffrey Epstein.
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