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Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks they should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions of the city or the idea that the 1920s was the golden age. When Inez goes off dancing with her friends, Gil takes a walk at midnight and discovers what could be the ultimate source of inspiration for writing. Gil's daily walks at midnight in Paris could take him closer to the heart of the city but further from the woman he's about to marry. Written by
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Release Date:
10 June 2011 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Midnight in Paris
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Box Office
Budget:
$17,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
€1,048,445
(Spain),
15 May 2011, Limited Release
Opening Weekend USA:
$599,003,
22 May 2011, Limited Release
Gross USA:
$56,816,662
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$151,119,219
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When the Doctor is checking John's Blood Pressure in the hotel room, you can see that he doesn't put the Blood Pressure Cuff on properly. Then, when the doctor is finished the Blood Pressure Cuff slides on John's arm. In reality it is put on tight initially and wouldn't slide when fully deflated.
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This is unbelievable! Look at this! There's no city like this in the world. There never was.
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You act like you've never been here before.
Gil:
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A division of MPL Music Publishing, Inc.
Performed by
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Courtesy of Geffen Records
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"Paris, France is exciting and peaceful." Gertrude Stein
Welcome to the world of Woody Allen as he has always loved it: nostalgic, romantic, imperfect, and full of hope. Midnight in Paris is one of his finest treatises on the lure and delusions of the past: Like Zelig it depicts other times, like Purple Rose of Cairo it uses magic realism to deal squarely with the present. Allen has another of his surrogates, this time Gil (Owen Wilson),who virtually experiences the past (the twenties) while dealing with the troublesome present.
Gil, engaged to marry Inez (Rachel McAdams), is with her and her parents on business in Paris where he hopes to work on his novel while he is still a successful Hollywood writer. Although she is a materialist who would like him to become wealthy to enjoy the life his parents are used to, he dreams of escaping the hack work of LA and living in the City of Lights for inspiration, just as his idols Fitzgerald and Hemingway did in the roaring twenties.
Well, the twenties roar back to him as he experiences their friendship and the mentoring of Gertrude Stein, among just a few of the many expatriate luminaries he meets through the magic of nostalgia. Just one of the Allen signature touches that make him the equal of great European directors such as Rohmer and Godard is opening the film with music that reflects the allure of the twenties, the romance of Paris, and his abiding love for this city: "Si Tu Vois Ma Mere" by Sidney Bechet combines jazz, the clarinet, the twenties, and Allen with a romantic nostalgia.
Owen Wilson catches the halting diffidence of the typical Allen persona without slavishly imitating him. Yet whatever little duplication Wilson employs endears as he sweetly visits his heroes, falls in love, and comes to terms with his writer's voice and his mismatched engagement. But that engagement is the troublesome present; the past offers the chance to experience history on a human level that only someone who writes for now and reveres the past can do.
The magic and the realism, both requiring hard work from the protagonist, lead to surprising understanding of human nature, the delusion of nostalgia and Paris, and hope for a present that brings love and inspiration.
"For all we know, Paris might be the hottest place in the universe." (Gil)
It's been at least a decade since I have enjoyed an Allen movie this much.