Movie Review: Mid Night in Paris- 2011
Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Comedy/Drama
Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston, Corey Stoll, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard
Paris, the city of culture, art, music and love. Artists and lovers, both travel to Paris to rekindle their respective passions and hope to find enlightenment and a fresh perspective. Gil Pender (Wilson) is a successful Hollywood script writer who feels that movies does not allow him to exploit all of his creativity and yearns for something different. He tries to write a book but ends up experiencing a writers block and is frustrated on how he could get around it. On a trip to Paris with his fiancee, Inez (McAdams), he is smitten by the beauty and charisma of the city and finds himself contemplating a life here away from California. Inez, however, feels that Gil has lost his mind and he needs to snap back to reality and forget about living in Paris. On a drunk nightly stroll across the city, Gil is invited inside a vintage car and soon realises that he has time-travelled back to the 1920's. Here, he meets all his literary idols like Ernest Hemmingway (Stoll), Scott Fitzgerald (Hiddleston), Gertrude Stein (Bates), Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter an every other major artist of the 1920's. All of a sudden, he is living his dream life in his dream era and rubbing shoulders with the very people he idolised. Night after night, he waits for the clock to strike twelve so that he can venture back in time and live his dream. The movie beautifully showcases the stereotypical Paris that we have always known it as and has portrayed Gil and Inez as a couple whose opinions are poles apart and yet together and are about to get married. Owen Wilson has done good justice to the role and adds humour quite naturally to his performance, he seems perfect for it. For those who dream of a life in romantic Paris, this movie helps you indulge in all your fantasies and dreams and being a Woody Allen movie, you really cant go too wrong with it. The biggest let down was the hasty manner in which the movie brought itself to a close, perhaps a better climax and a smoother transition might have helped the flow. A great romance movie that isn't all soppy and mushy and can actually be quite fun.
Thumbs up: Owen Wilson, depiction of Paris
Thumbs down: Hasty end
nice post, i love it!
ReplyDeleteAwesome movie. I do agree I have watched the movie almost thrice and enjoy it each time. Thank u for the review.
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