Film review for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
This lovely, sweet, delightful film by director Woody Allen, renowned for his wit and witty approach, opens with images of Paris as a touristic documentary. These are the images of Paris that we can call cliché: Champs Elysees, Eiffel, Louvre, Notre Dame, Victory Monument. These are the brightest, most attractive and clichés of the tourist areas. And it takes a long time. And then we meet an American couple, the engaged couple in Paris, with the girl’s parents.
Inez (Rachel McAdams) is actually the father’s work. But Gil (Owen Wilson), who is working on writing a book, is very happy to be there, says it to his fiancee many times… Gil, who is working on writing a book, is fascinated enough to even want to settle in Paris, but Inez and his family they never come from there.
Already in their right-wing speeches, it is evident from every conversation that the luxury-loving “glory” family wants to do in Paris and what our hero Gil wants to do. When Paul (Michael Sheen) and his wife are involved in the couple’s Paris trips, Gil feels completely lonely and wanders away from everyone and wanders alone in Paris.
They look at life from different eyes with their fiancé. Gil is an aspiring writer who loves the past, even living with the past, admiring writers, painters and other artists who lived in the past. His fiancée, his family, and even his friends Paul think, “nostalgia is a refusal of time.” Gil thinks of these differences and stops by himself in front of an old car while he walks the streets of Paris and the people inside him invite him to the car.
After getting into this car, Gil goes to another period and has the opportunity to be with all the artists he admires. I don’t want to tell you any more because the film’s most enjoyable places start from this point. Especially if you are interested in art and the art movements of the 1920s in Paris, you will be very happy with Gill’s time travel, and you will even want to be in Gill’s place.
Gill, who is supposed to be Woody Allen’s alter ego, experiences the streets of Paris in a way that anyone who loves art can imagine. Even though the film is released a little late in our country, with its nostalgic scent, you are not too late to experience it yourself by wandering the streets of Paris painted by Woody Allen in Monet blue.
For Midnight in Paris, you can say Woody Allen’s film about the cities, London, Barcelona with Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Barcelona with What’s New Pussycat (script). However, it is clear that the director’s success lies in his ability to tell the cliché so well and successfully and make him watch it with pleasure.
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Midnight in Paris (2011)
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson, Nina Arianda, Audrey Fleurot, Alison Pill
Screenplay by: Woody Allen
Production Design by: Anne Seibel
Cinematography by: Darius Khondji
Film Editing by: Alisa Lepselter
Costume Design by: Sonia Grande
Set Decoration by: Hélène Dubreuil
Art Direction by: Jean-Yves Rabier
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references and smoking.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: May 20, 2011
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