American director and actor Woody Allen, whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films, has announced his retirement from filmmaking. According to Variety, recently while working on his 50th film in Europe, Allen told a Spanish newspaper that he intends to retire from making movies and dedicate more time to writing during his twilight years.

Set in Paris, Allen's last film will be shot entirely in French in a couple of weeks. The upcoming movie has been described by him to be similar to 'Match Point', saying it would be "exciting, dramatic and also very sinister." Allen recently wrote his fifth collection of humour pieces, 'Zero Gravity', which will be published on September 27 by Alianza in Spain. In the U.S., it was published by Arcade and distributed by Simon & Schuster, reported Variety.