Midnight In Paris

Nostalgia Lane..Owen Wilson...Marion Cotillard..Midnight In Paris

Woody Allen is trying to reignite his film-making fame by creating this rom-com set in twentieth century Paris. He does this quite successfully. Owen Wilson, whom I don't find annoying for once, plays, Gil, a successful but distracted writer. He travels to Paris with his fiancee, Inez, played by an annoying Rachel McAdams because of Inez's father's business. Soon Gil finds himself encountering famous people from the last couple of centuries. Gil meets Pablo Picasso's mistress, the strikingly beautiful, Adriana played superbly by Marion Cotillard. As every night at midnight, surprisingly, he is drawn closer and closer into her world. He meets other famous people like Hemmingway (Corey Stoll) and Gertrude Stein, played by Kathy Bates. It's funny, charming but doesn't quite draw you in from the beginning. A genuine success done by Woody Allen.


3.5/5