Midnight In Paris [PG]

Gil and his fiancé Inez are engaged to be married and on holidays in Paris with her parents. For Gil, as a writer, the city of Paris holds more beauty and wonder than it does for his modern, overbearing, and unromantic fiancé. Gil would love to live in the Golden Age: Paris in the 1920s, and one night, as the clock strikes twelve, he discovers a way to do just that. 

What a film! WHAT A FILM! This was a wonderful story, a story after my own heart actually. Woody Allen and I should have lunch! I was hooked, literally within 3 minutes. The entire film is dripping with romance, passion, and freedom of the imagination. Nominated for a handful of Academy Awards including Best Picture, Achievement in Art Direction, Achievement in Directing, and winning the award for Best Original Screenplay, Midnight In Paris is a wonderfully original film that will just make you fall in love… it doesn’t even matter what with, you’ll just fall, head over heels, and all that jazz. 

Gil and his fiancé Inez are engaged to be married and on holidays in Paris with her parents. For Gil, as a writer, the city of Paris holds more beauty and wonder than it does for his modern, overbearing, and unromantic fiancé. Gil would love to live in his personal Golden age: Paris in the 1920s, preferably in the rain. And one night, as the clock strikes midnight, he discovers a way to do just that. 

The major appeal of this movie, for me, is that it’s a writer’s movie. The protagonist is a writer and Woody Allen is a wonderful man who has really wonderful ideas. They may not always work on film, but they always have potent potential! And being a writer (of sorts) myself, this movie was just dripping, practically swimming with literary romanticism. We meet artists, real artists like Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Earnest Hemingway, Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Gertrude Stein, and I have to say that everyone played their parts so well. SO WELL! I mean, this movie was something right out of my own fictional inner sanctuary, it was a dream come true for me and I literally spent the entire duration of this film with a swooning, romantic, contented smile plastered on my face. 

The cinematography is just lovely, “really lovely” and the characters, the music, the performances, everything was just so real and dazzling and delightful and oh how I crave to be in Paris right now. This movie really captures the romance, the ambiance, the famous allure that Paris holds. It’s absolutely wonderful! 

Featuring wonderful performances from Owen Wilson, a writer after my own heart, Rachel McAdams, who played the (for lack of a better word) bitch really well, Cathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, who is just beautiful and an actress that I would go to a film to see, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Nina Arianda, Alison Pill, Corey Stoll, Tom Hiddleston, Gad Elmaleh, and Michael Sheen, Midnight In Paris is a remarkable story and film that is filled with romance, splendour, enchanting scenery, conflicts, artists, geniuses, oh it just has a little bit of everything. It’s wonderful! IT REALLY IS WONDERUL! An absolute delight, a treat, a splendour, oh c’est magnifique!