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Midnight in Paris Bilingual [Blu-ray]

Carla Bruni , Rachel McAdams , Woody Allen    Blu-ray
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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Paris is a city that lends itself to daydreaming, to walking the streets and imagining all sorts of magic, a quality that Woody Allen understands perfectly. Midnight in Paris is Allen's charming reverie about just that quality, with a screenwriter hero named Gil (Owen Wilson) who strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in the clouds and walks right into his own best fantasy. Gil is there with his materialistic fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her unpleasant parents, taking a break from his financially rewarding but spiritually unfulfilling Hollywood career--and he can't stop thinking that all he wants to do is quit the movies, move to Paris, and write that novel he's been meaning to finish. You know, be like his heroes in the bohemian Paris of the 1920s. Sure enough, a midnight encounter draws him into the jazzy world of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso and Dali, and an intense Ernest Hemingway, who promises to bring Gil's manuscript to Gertrude Stein for review. Gil wakes up every morning back in the real world, but returning to his enchanted Paris proves fairly easy. In the execution of this marvelous fantasia, Allen pursues the idea that people of every generation have always romanticized a previous age as golden (this is in fact explained to us by Michael Sheen's pedantic art expert), but he also honors Gil's need to find out certain truths for himself. The movie's on the side of gentle fantasy, and it has some literary/cinematic in-jokes that call back to the kind of goofy humor Allen created in Love and Death.The film is guilty of the slackness that Allen's latter-day directing has sometimes shown, and the underwritten roles for McAdams and Marion Cotillard are better acted than written. But the city glows with Allen's romantic sense of it, and Owen Wilson has just the right nice-guy melancholy to put the idea over. A worthy entry in the Cinema of the Daydream. --Robert Horton


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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Luminous and charming Nov 20 2011
By K. Gordon TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
A charming, sweet film, that explores the nature of nostalgia (its glow
and its darker shadows), and shows off Paris, both modern day, and in
the 1920s, almost as beautifully as Manhattan showed off New York.

Laced with wonderful cameo and supporting performances (Adrien Brody,
Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard, Corey Stoll, just to name a few) and
gifted by a quirky, lovably sad Owen Wilson as a sort of Eyeore of a
struggling writer in the lead.

Wilson is probably the best stand in yet for Allen in one of his films,
precisely because he's so different from Allen, and doesn't seem to be
doing an Allen impersonation. (Even Allen admitted that part of the
appeal in casting Wilson was casting someone so far from himself).

The 94 minutes of the film flew by, and never lost it's charm.

A number of professional critics noted that this was a new tone for
Allen, neither laugh out loud comedy, nor serious drama (or, as in his
greatest films a combination of the two), but is more of a light drama,
with a gentle comic whimsy. I actually think Allen started exploring
this interesting new tone with his last film 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark
Stranger' And it does seem to have reinvigorated him.

I did have a couple of problems with the film. First, Rachel McAdams as
Wilson's fiancé, along with her family, were made too caraciturish, too
obviously 'bad' for a film this subtle. McAdams is a brilliant actress,
but here she seems pushed into being a symbol of all that's wrong with
shallow, materialistic Americans.

More problematically, after gently, subtly exploring it's themes for
the whole film, Allen suddenly starts laying them on very thick at the
end, putting them very literally into the dialogue, almost as if he
doesn't trust us to be smart enough to get the point of the whole
lovely film he just showed us.

But these are minor complaints, and while this may not be one of
Allen's great films, it is a very good one, and that makes it special
and worth seeking out.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Film: Allen's Gift Still Sparkling Jan 2 2012
By Ryan
Format:DVD
Fantastic movie for art-lovers, well-acted, casted, and an excellent story.

I couldn't see anyone apart from Owen Wilson in this role. It's good to finally see him in a good film again.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fabulous Feel-Good Movie Dec 1 2012
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you love Paris then this is a great movie to watch, but apart from that, a great fantasy. I loved everything about it. The acting is wonderful and Owen Wilson does a great job of being Woody..... highly recommend this movie.
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4.0 out of 5 stars First rate entertainment
Feels like a Paris vacation.
What a terrific cast - very glamorous, entertaining and with such beautiful
cinematography, excellent script, and great acting. Read more
Published 21 days ago by David Edward Cooke Cooke
4.0 out of 5 stars return to play it again...
Here we have Woody Allen who has been a force in world cinema for so long and who's work is so well known that the audience(and who hasnt seen one of woody's films..or more.. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Anthony Marinelli
3.0 out of 5 stars Midnight in Paris
I had to watch this movie twice to really start to enjoy it. I didn't enjoy the movie flipping back and forth from reality to fantasy.
Published 4 months ago by Marion
4.0 out of 5 stars Cute
It was a cute movie. Definitely a feel-good watch. Really enjoyed it and it wasn't what I expected at all.
Published 4 months ago by Megan
1.0 out of 5 stars Midnight in paris
It was a movie that sounded intriguing but it fell flat!!! I love Owen so was dissapointed with the story line,,,,
Published 6 months ago by Amy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie from a great artist
If you are a fan of either Woody Allen or Owen Wilson this movie is a must-have. If you are not, I still recommend it most highly as it has all the earmarks of a great film. Read more
Published 6 months ago by 2BHonest
5.0 out of 5 stars Renversant!
J'avais vu ce bijou de Woody Allen sur grand écran et maintenant que je l'ai chez moi c'est extra! Read more
Published 9 months ago by joanne
5.0 out of 5 stars As charming and luminous as a glass of champagne
When I first watched this movie, I felt like Woody Allen had made it just for me. I am obsessed with Paris and the Roaring 20's, so watching this earnest, geeky writer get... Read more
Published 12 months ago by G. Larouche
1.0 out of 5 stars I Can't Believe You Asked
I Can't Believe You Asked. I ordered a Blu-Ray version of this movie which turned out to be defective. There was no sound on the dialogue. Read more
Published 13 months ago by SharonO
5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting!
I first saw this movie on a plane trip to Paris...so fitting, as this movie is totally about Paris and you'll see many scenes that you will recognize... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Cheryl F
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