HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen 2011) The fortieth feature film written and directed by Woody Allen (and thats not even counting his TV movies nor Whats Up Tiger Lily?) and his greatest box-office hit, Midnight in Paris is a romantic fantasy comedy starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard. Gil Pender (Wilson) is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who has come to Paris on holidays with his fiancée Inez (McAdams) and her conservative parents. Gil has been trying to finish his novel and wants to move to Paris, being unsatisfied with his career as a screenwriter in Hollywood but Inez thinks thats all nonsense. Then one night, Gil gets drunk as hes walking the streets at midnight, a vintage car filled with people dressed in 1920s attire stops next to him and hes invited to come along. He does after he arrives at the party, it becomes apparent that he has actually been transported back in time and is hanging out with his idols from the era. As he leaves the party to get his manuscript to show to Gertrude Stein, the promptly finds himself back in the present again. To the dismay of his fiancée, Gil keeps going out every night after, returning to the past, where he starts to fall in love with Picassos mistress Adriana (Cotillard). But when the two are taken back further in time to the 1890s, the era Adriana idolizes, Gil learns that people from different ages all long for their own romanticized olden days. A great critical as well as financial success, Midnight in Paris is often considered one of Allens best later works. The film looks stunning with cinematographer Darius Khondji making Paris look even more spectacular than it already is and the screenplay is a gem, perfectly balancing romanticism, fantasy and comedy. Owen Wilson makes for a perfect stand-in for a character Woody Allen would probably have played had he been younger and the film has an incredible supporting cast to make a range of icons of various eras come to life. Amongst them are Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein, Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemmingway, Tom Hiddleston as F. Scott Fitzgerald and a scene-stealing Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali. Midnight in Paris was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Film and Director, and won one for Best Screenplay. It also won the same category at the Golden Globes, the Goya Awards, the Online Film Critics Society and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards. youtu.be/FAfR8omt-CY?t=6s
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:02:42 +0000
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