Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris is an American romantic comedy fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It has Paris as location and has 94 minutes of running time. The movie was released in 2011 and was nominated for the 84º Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Art Direction, but it just won for Best Original Screenplay (when the script isn’t based in other story). Great actors and actresses are in the movie, like Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams.

The movie doesn’t have many special effects, but Woody Allen can pass his vision of fantasy through the main character Gil, which is played by Owen Wilson. The fantasy can be seeing in the costumes used by the people from de 1920s and the classic music present in the movie.

Gil is a nostalgic screenwriter who goes on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family and mysteriously can go back to the 1920s every day at midnight. While he is in the 1920s, he meets many artists, writers that he idolizes, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali. I think these artists are almost like heroes to him. Besides that, he meets Adriana (which is played by Marion Cotillard), a beautiful woman and Gil fall in love with her.

Gil tries to write a story based on his own life and he gives to Stein to read it. Stein says that the book is very good, but the main character needs to realize that he is being betrayed by his fiancée. Then, he confronts his fiancée Inez (played by Rachel McAdams) and breaks up with her and after that, Gil decides to move to Paris alone.

In my opinion, the movie was very good and the performance of the actors were great, but to better understand the film is necessary to have knowledge about the 1920s.