Midnight in Paris

After exploring the inability to be happy with what you have and the costant need, never satisfied, of desiring something else in "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger", Woody Allen gives us now a beautiful fable about the importance of knowing each other and finding happiness in the present.

Gil (Owen Wilson), a screenplay writer who works for Hollywood, has arrived to Paris wih and his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), for a holiday before their wedding. Having been always captivated by the literary legend of the city of light, Gil believes that in its streets he will find the inspiration he needs to finish a novel he is writing.

Woody Allen, with wisdom, makes the viewer look at the space through the mesmerized eyes of the protagonist: since the beginning, we know that this is an idyllic representation of the city, showing a succession of images typical of a post-card, like small cafes, great monuments, avenues and squares.

In no time, we are in Gil’s dream and we know that only there he will find the answers he is seeking. Overwhelmed by the materialistic cravings of his parents-in-law, bored of listening to the pretentious Paul, the university professor friend of his fiancée and unable to accept the enormous differences that are increasingly evident between him and Inez, Gil will look to be isolated to find himself.

One night walking alone he will get lost and then the impossible happens: Gil finds himself, unexpectedly, in the Paris of the 1920's, the one he had always dreamed of, and will get to know the glories of literature he admires, which converged in that city where, as when Hemingway said, "Paris was a party."

After overcoming the shock and surrender to what this new adventure lets him and makes him discover, Gil finds that his present situation seems to fade or lose meaning. Is he really doing what he loves? Should he marry Inez, accept her lifestyle and forget his romantic dreams? In the darkness of the Parisian midnight Gil must face his fears and accept the influence laid on him by Adriana (Marion Cotillard).

Fun, graceful and sweet Woody Allen takes us by the hand with his character and makes us smile and surprise at every turn, as we are told a story about finding the deepest desires, the love for art and literature and invites us finally, to take charge of our destiny and stop believing that, at another time or under other circumstances, you may be happy.

Director: Woody Allen

Writer: Woody Allen

Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates