Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen is back on form with this light-as-a-feather fantasy about 20s bohemian Paris, which (incredibly) is already the most commercially successful of his career. It's a funny, slight comedy whose time-travel conceit is managed effortlessly. Standing in for Allen himself Owen Wilson plays Gil, a youngish Hollywood screenwriter who is visiting Paris with his egocentric social-climbing fiancee, Inez (Rachel McAdams), and her wealthy, neo-xenophobic parents. One night, while Gil is walking the streets of Montmartre he is transported back to the 1920s and confronts the illusion that a life different from one’s own is better.
Dir: Woody Allen (USA) Paris, 2011, 94 mins, Cert:12A
Starring: Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen,
Language: English
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