Midnight in Paris

6/16/2014

Really nice movie, done with a great delicacy. Worth watching to get in love with Paris but it is also a great story of self knowledge and evolution.

8/2/2022

**Magnificent, it is a love declaration for Paris.** With this film, Woody Allen makes, in the background, a love declaration for Paris, a city he already knows very well and for which he seems to feel a great affection. In addition to the beauty of the city, especially in the opening sequence, the script revisits the history and importance of the French city, as a meeting point for artists and writers. The film begins very well, introducing us to an American engaged couple who came to Paris on their father's business trip. From the start they seem a bit strange: she is quite frivolous and seems to feel that she is doing him a huge favor by marrying him, and it is perfectly obvious that her parents do not approve of the match; in turn, the young man is an aspiring writer who has grow

11/12/2025

## **Midnight in Paris (2011) Review: A Magical, Melancholy Love Letter - 8/10** *Midnight in Paris* is Woody Allen in his most enchantingly wistful form. It’s a film that operates on a premise of pure, unadulterated fantasy, yet it resonates with a profound and universal truth about nostalgia and the eternal human temptation to view another era as a "golden age." Perfectly directed, it balances whimsy with a sharp, intellectual core, resulting in one of Allen's most beloved and accessible late-career triumphs. ### The Premise: A Portal to the Past Owen Wilson plays Gil, a disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter and aspiring novelist on a trip to Paris with his dismissive fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her conservative parents. Feeling out of place in his own life, he romanticises the

7/6/2026

"Gil" (Owen Wilson) has made a decent living as an Hollywood script writer when he comes to Paris with his fiancée "Inez" (Rachel McAdams) and her parents - but writers block is poleaxing his first novel. Pretty immediately he falls in love with the city, but she doesn't really share his romantic attachment to the place and is certainly uninterested in them living there after their forthcoming wedding. She goes out for a night on the tiles with her rather supercillious ex-boyfriend "Paul" (Michael Sheen) and his new gal "Carol" (Nina Ariandra) so he goes for a wander around the place at midnight and that's when he begins to imagine what life would have been like back in the roaring 1920s - when this was a city of enlightenment. He gradually finds himself drawn into a world where he enjoys