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Woody Allen goes time-traveling
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS :
Written and directed
by Woody Allen. Cinematography, Darius Khondji
and Johanne Debas. Editor, Alisa Lepselter. Starring
Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen,
Marion Cotillard, Kurt Fuller, Kathy Bates and Mimi
Kennedy. Sony Pictures Classics, 2011. PG-13. 100
minutes.
B
oth utterly fl uffy and dreamily
gilded, Woody Allen’s paean to
Paris is as shiny a trifl e as a high-
minded romantic comedy could ever hope
to be. And there’s not anything wrong
with that, exactly, except that Midnight in
Paris feels thin and unfulfi lling, even as it
fl oats on a poignant idea about the tangled
relationship between art, love and nostalgia.
Owen Wilson is Allen’s latest semi-
stammering stand-in, playing Gil Pender,
a successful American screenwriter on
vacation in Paris with his fi ancée, Inez
(Rachel McAdams), and her unbearable
parents, John (Kurt Fuller) and Helen
(Mimi Kennedy, so fantastic in 2009’s In
the Loop). Dreamy Gil, who aspires to
quit the screenwriting game and become a
novelist, wants to walk in the rain and can’t
decide whether Paris is more beautiful at
night or during the day (the fi lm opens with
a long, long montage of Paris street scenes,
giving you plenty of time to form your
own opinion on the matter). As for Inez,
she appears to enjoy sniping endlessly
at Gil, mocking his dreamy side and
generally being a one-dimensional harpy.
It’s a mystery what McAdams is doing
in this thankless role; her only task is to
convincingly push Gil away.
When a slightly drunken Gil decides to
wander the streets alone, the fi lm takes a
nicely understated turn for the magical: An
old Peugeot pulls up and whisks Gil into
his beloved ’20s. Inspiration comes to life
as he meets Ernest Hemingway (Corey
Stoll), F. Scott (Tom Hiddleston) and
Zelda Fitzgerald (an excellent Alison Pill),
Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates), who helps
with his novel, and others, all of whom
speak in brief lines that neatly encapsulate
up their now-famous characters. A lovely
young muse-to-many, Adriana (Marion
Cotillard), gets more screen time as the
object of Gil’s wandering affection, but she
too longs for yet another bygone era.
Meanwhile, in the present, everyone is
absolutely horrid and it’s no wonder Gil
would want to get away from all of them —
excepting Carla Bruni as a helpful tour guide
and young Léa Seydoux as a friendly Cole
Porter fan. Gil’s time-traveling adventures
serve as a chance to rewrite his novel and
to relearn that soaking in nostalgia isn’t the
most satisfying life choice. In fact, it might
just be a distraction from the ugly parts of
the life you’re not entirely living, or from
acting on your real dreams.
Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy
that’s neither all that romantic nor all that
funny, though Fuller, Kennedy and Sheen try
to make the most of roles stuffed with more
loathing than wit. If you identify with or are
charmed by Wilson’s Gil, you’ll likely think
his fantasy endearing; if you kind of wish he
was an iota more self-aware, you might fi nd
his wish-fulfi llment vacation a little hard to
swallow. But the bittersweet contradiction
at the heart of Gil’s internal confl ict saves
things from being just too pat: He can’t live
in the ’20s, but it’s his nostalgia, his love for
a perfect vision of the past, that wakes him
up to the present.
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