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Midnight in Paris
Owen Wilson plays Gil, a youngish Hollywood screenwriter and would-be novelist best known for his skills at rewrites, a diffident, humorous man with a great respect for high culture and a love of popular art but suspicious of pretension. He's visiting Paris with his egocentric social-climbing fiancee, Inez (Rachel McAdams), and her wealthy, neo-xenophobic parents. One night Gil is walking the streets of Montmartre, more than slightly drunk, when a clock chimes midnight. A bunch of rowdy American revellers in a vintage, chauffeur-driven Peugeot stop, drag him into the car and take him to a party. Gradually it dawns on him he's been transported back to the 1920s and is in the company of Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) and the writers she dubbed the Lost Generation – Hemingway, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Djuna Barnes – along with Cole Porter, and their European friends, Picasso, Dalí and Buñuel. Director:Woody Allen Starring: Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson Rating: 12A Year: 2011 Country: USA Length: 100mins Academy Award winner: Woody Allen - Best Original Screenplay |