Midnight in Paris (USA), 2011
Directed by Woody Allen
Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Carla Bruni, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody
Beguiling. Bewitching. Enthralling.
I went out of our movie room, with a smile (on my face) and a few thoughts in my head after watching Midnight in Paris. First, it made me love the City of Love all the more. And it had reinforced my desire to embrace literature further. It was a joy to watch Gil (Owen Wilson), a distracted screenwriter who, one late night, treads in the bewildering streets of Paris to ponder about his writing job, when, at the stroke of midnight, finds himself meeting literary greats such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and acclaimed painter Pablo Picasso and his mistress Adriana (Marion Cotillard), to name a few. Alas, the witching hour begins!
Really, how fun would that be? That's like the wildest dream, which can ever come true for a writer trapped in his/her literary reverie! Which of course, makes this fantasy flick a sure comfort, (even to non-writers). It poses an enthralling question: how wild can your imagination be? Even then, it is slightly whimsical yet insightful. The twists and turns of the story can very well unfold a poetry in its own right: romanticising the musings of a daydreamer, putting life to nostalgia, sharing love across time difference.
Once again, Woody Allen let us into his beguiling realms of imagination and he surely knows how to cast his magic spell on us. And true enough, I was bathe in the refreshing magic only found in Midnight in Paris.
Directed by Woody Allen
Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Carla Bruni, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody
I went out of our movie room, with a smile (on my face) and a few thoughts in my head after watching Midnight in Paris. First, it made me love the City of Love all the more. And it had reinforced my desire to embrace literature further. It was a joy to watch Gil (Owen Wilson), a distracted screenwriter who, one late night, treads in the bewildering streets of Paris to ponder about his writing job, when, at the stroke of midnight, finds himself meeting literary greats such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and acclaimed painter Pablo Picasso and his mistress Adriana (Marion Cotillard), to name a few. Alas, the witching hour begins!
Really, how fun would that be? That's like the wildest dream, which can ever come true for a writer trapped in his/her literary reverie! Which of course, makes this fantasy flick a sure comfort, (even to non-writers). It poses an enthralling question: how wild can your imagination be? Even then, it is slightly whimsical yet insightful. The twists and turns of the story can very well unfold a poetry in its own right: romanticising the musings of a daydreamer, putting life to nostalgia, sharing love across time difference.
Once again, Woody Allen let us into his beguiling realms of imagination and he surely knows how to cast his magic spell on us. And true enough, I was bathe in the refreshing magic only found in Midnight in Paris.
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