Daniel
Brizuela 4/19/12
Midnight
in Paris review.
In 2011,
Woody Allen, released a film he had completed in 2010, starring Owen Wilson,
Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard, and other great actors. That
film is Midnight in Paris, a romantic
fantasy comedy that Allen himself once again wrote and directed.
The film has
Owen Wilson playing a writer vacationing in Paris, and with a love of 1920s
Paris art, with his fiancé who’s played by McAdams. After walking through the
streets of Paris drunk he stops and after a clock striking midnight is invited
by some people in old style clothing being driven in a 1920s style car. It is
then that Wilson’s character, Gil Pender, realizes how beautiful and magical
the city of Paris, France can really be.
Pender
realizes that the spot he was in at midnight takes him back in time to one of
the Golden Ages of art in 1920s Paris. It is there that he meets many of his
favorite idols, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Salvador Dali,
and many other famous 1920s art figures. He also starts to fall in love with
Pablo Picasso’s mistress Adriana, played by Marion Cotillard, and spends a lot
of time with her in the past.
Inez,
Pender’s fiancée, doesn’t believe in any of his stories that he tells and isn’t
as overwhelmed in Parisian art as Gil is. Near the end Gil realizes that Inez
is cheating on him with a friend of hers that she adored and they both call off
the wedding. Before that, Gill and Adriana end up in 1890s Paris which is also
considered a Golden Age in art with Adriana deciding to stay and Gill deciding
to stay in his own present.
At the end
Gil and Inez have broken up and Gil decides that he wants to stay and leave in
Paris because of how beautiful it is. While walking in midnight, Pender runs
into an antiques dealer he earlier met named Gabrielle, who, like him, also
likes Paris in the rain.
Midnight in Paris turned out to be one
of Woody Allen’s best films he’s ever made, becoming the highest grossing he’s
ever directed. At the 84th Academy Awards, the film was nominated
for Best Picture and Best Director and won for Best Original Screenplay.
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