Oscar Watch: Spending Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen not only scored his highest-grossing film in his illustrious career with Midnight in Paris, the writer-director earned a nomination for Best Picture.
Today Oscar Watch looks at the little movie that could, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates and Marion Cotillard.
Midnight in Paris follows Wilson’s Gil, a frustrated writer who is soaking up the inspiration that is the French capital. The only thing is his fiance Inez (McAdams) fails to see anything joyous about the Parisian life. What’s a guy to do? Gil heads out for a solo walk at, you guessed it, midnight, and begins the adventure of a lifetime.
He is transported to the city during the roaring 1920s when a conclave of artists, musicians, writers and thespians made the locale their home. Gil runs into F. Scott Fitzgerald (Hiddleston), Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dali and Gertrude Stein (Bates). That ought to move anyone to put pen to paper and it does for Wilson’s Gil.
In the hands of Allen, this film is one part romance, another part comedy, with a dash of fantasy and all postcard to the City of Lights. Midnight in Paris is another of those Academy Award must-sees that has got to be witnessed before February 26 to fully appreciate the accolades that will be bestowed upon it on Oscar night. It is one of Allen’s finest.
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March 1st, 2012 11:35 PM
Hemingway: All men fear death. It's a naaurtl fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven't loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman's heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.
February 23rd, 2012 6:01 PM
Best line of your reivew: "It is quite a love letter to the city." Excellent description. I won't be seeing that movie. I'll wait until it comes out on cable.
February 17th, 2012 3:02 PM
woow... i love this movie