Kim watches "Midnight In Paris." 12/18/2011
 Okay, so it probably isn't for everyone, but for me, "Midnight In Paris" is Woody Allen's best work since "Hannah and Her Sisters." Of course, to fully apprecate this film you must have a love for art, artist, and Paris. Of which, I do! "Midnight in Paris" is an intellectual fantasy trip, a film snobs day dream, a surrealist dream within a dream, and I'm still floating from the well shot, acted, and scripted film. I don't know when or if I will ever come down wondering how cool it must have been to be an Ex-Patriot living the artist life in Paris after the first World War. The opportunity to be a fly-on-the wall and see Hemingway, Zelda, Scott Fitzgerald, Dali, Porter, etc. as they might have been in casual conversation gives this dreamer hope in American Film. Owen Wilson is the perfect Woody Allen character: smart, but given to mental distraction, modest, but daring in love , witty and foolish with sophisticated edges. And when Owen Wilson walks in the rain across the Seine with the down-to-earth French woman at the end of the film, it is a film snobs dream. Thanks Woody, lets do it again, soon. American film needs you CommentsLeave a Reply | Kim Zog
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