Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen picked up the Best Original Screenplay award at this year’s Oscars for his script about a disillusioned Los Angeles screenwriter who becomes inspired to write a serious novel on a visit to Paris. Owen Wilson is perfectly cast as the excitable and charming Gil, who doesn’t seem suited to his uptight fiance Inez (Rachel McAdams). One evening while exploring the city, he is transported back to the bohemian Paris of the 20s, where he falls in love with Picasso’s mistress (Marion Cotillard). “ ... for simple pleasure, the sort of reliably stimulating pleasure Allen used to deliver all the time, that confectionery of sophisticated wit … Midnight in Paris does well. This may not be a return to the glory days, but it’s a vivid reminder of them,” writes Peter Bradshaw in a review for The Guardian.

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