Watch “Midnight in Paris” Movie
One romantic film has invaded the town. This is entitled Midnight in Paris. When we talk about Paris, the first thing that comes to our mind is the sweet and romantic place.
Midnight in Paris opens with a prologue, shot with a poet’s eye by the great Darius Khondji, that shows off the City of Light from dawn to darkness in images of shimmering loveliness. Pity the actors who have to compete with such an object of desire. Owen Wilson stars as Gil, a Hollywood screenwriter on a return visit to Paris, this time with his fiancee, Inez (Rachel McAdams). “This is where Monet lived and painted,” Gil enthuses. Inez isn’t into water lilies or Gil’s dreams of writing the great American novel like Hemingway and Fitzgerald. She’d rather party with Paul (Michael Sheen), a fake intellectual who thinks he can one-up a Rodin museum tour guide (a playful cameo from France’s First Lady, Carla Bruni).
Midnight in Paris is infused with seductive secrets no review should spoil. But for all the film’s bracing humor and ravishing romance, there are also haunting shadows. That alone makes it a keeper.