Author: Kathy Bates

Format: Subtitled

Release Date: 20-12-2011

Details: Product Description This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. Amazon.ca Paris is a city that lends itself to daydreaming, to walking the streets and imagining all sorts of magic, a quality that Woody Allen understands perfectly. Midnight in Paris is Allen's charming reverie about just that quality, with a screenwriter hero named Gil (Owen Wilson) who strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in the clouds and walks right into his own best fantasy. Gil is there with his materialistic fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her unpleasant parents, taking a break from his financially rewarding but spiritually unfulfilling Hollywood career--and he can't stop thinking that all he wants to do is quit the movies, move to Paris, and write that novel he's been meaning to finish. You know, be like his heroes in the bohemian Paris of the 1920s. Sure enough, a midnight encounter draws him into the jazzy world of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso and Dali, and an intense Ernest Hemingway, who promises to bring Gil's manuscript to Gertrude Stein for review. Gil wakes up every morning back in the real world, but returning to his enchanted Paris proves fairly easy. In the execution of this marvelous fantasia, Allen pursues the idea that people of every generation have always romanticized a previous age as golden (this is in fact explained to us by Michael Sheen's pedantic art expert), but he also honors Gil's need to find out certain truths for himself. The movie's on the side of gentle fantasy, and it has some literary/cinematic in-jokes that call back to the kind of goofy humor Allen created in Love and Death. The film is guilty of the slackness that Allen's later-day directing has sometimes shown, and the underwritten roles for McAdams and Marion Cotillard are better acted than written. But the city glows with Allen's romantic sense of it, and Owen Wilson has just the right nice-guy melancholy to put the idea over. A worthy entry in the Cinema of the Daydream. --Robert Horton Gil and Inez are two young American engaged couples preparing for their wedding. They spend a few days in Paris, accompanying Inez's parents who have come to France on business. While Gil is under the spell of the French capital and plans to settle there, neither his bride nor his future in-laws appreciate him too much. The unexpected meeting with another American couple whose husband is a former flirt of Inez, smug and undrinkable, will help to distance the young engaged couple a little more. Gil travels the city in search of inspiration for his next novel and, as the clock strikes twelve, he is invited to get into an old car that will take him to the Paris of the 1920s. nights, he will then meet Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Juan Belmonte, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, TS Eliot, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse… He will gradually fall in love with Adriana, who is then the muse of Picasso after having been that of Modigliani. Yet she only dreams of Paris and the Maxim's of the Belle Époque, where they both end up meeting and where Adriana will stay. Gil will separate from Inez and stay in Paris, where he will meet a young contemporary who loves the city in the rain like him.

UPC: 043396388239

EAN: 0043396388239

Languages: English

Binding: Blu-ray

Item Condition: New