Midnight in Paris [Blu-ray]

Product Description This is a romantic edy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of busin and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. I about a young ma great love for a c Pa and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. Amazo Paris is a city that lends itself to daydream to walking the streets and imagining all sorts of ma a quality that Woody Allen understands perfectly. Midnight in Paris is Alle charming reverie about just that qual with a screenwriter hero named Gil (Owen Wilson) who strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in the clouds and walks right into his own best fantasy. Gil is there with his materialistic fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her unpleasant pare taking a break from his financially rewarding but spiritually unfulfilling Hollywood career--and he can't stop thinking that all he wants to do is quit the mov move to Pa and write that novel h been meaning to finish. You k be like his heroes in the bohemian Paris of the 1920s. Sure eno a midnight encounter draws him into the jazzy world of Scott and Zelda Fitzger Picasso and D and an intense Ernest Heming who promises to bring Gi manuscript to Gertrude Stein for review. Gil wakes up every morning back in the real wo but returning to his enchanted Paris proves fairly easy. In the execution of this marvelous fanta Allen pursues the idea that people of every generation have always romanticized a previous age as golden (this is in fact explained to us by Michael Shee pedantic art expe but he also honors Gi need to find out certain truths for himself. The movi on the side of gentle fant and it has some literary cinematic in-jokes that call back to the kind of goofy humor Allen created in Love and Death.The film is guilty of the slackness that Alle latter-day directing has sometimes sh and the underwritten roles for McAdams and Marion Cotillard are better acted than written. But the city glows with Alle romantic sense of and Owen Wilson has just the right nice-guy melancholy to put the idea over. A worthy entry in the Cinema of the Daydream. --Robert Horton