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Jazz Age
cinegeek.de - wrote on 04/22/2016
Wer keine Spoiler mag, muss hier leider schon aufhören, zu lesen. Ich weiss einfach nicht, wie ich die Rezension ohne schreiben soll. Woody Allen hat eine köstliche Fantasy Komödie gemacht! Für mich als Videothekar hat er auch ein schönes Spielchen mit den Grössen der Pariser Avantgarde veranstaltet! Midnight In Paris eröffnet mit einem amerikanischen Paar, dass die Ferien in Paris verbringt - ein Tagtraum! Offiziell sind Gil (Owen Wilson) und Inez (Rachel McAdams) verliebt, doch womöglich ist es der Frühling in Paris, in den Gil tatsächlich verliebt ist? Er arbeitet als Autor für Hollywood, träumt aber davon, einmal ein grosser amerikanischer Schriftsteller zu werden. Einer wie Hemingway oder Fitzgerald während der späten 20er! Gil würde auch zu gern in Paris leben, …
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4/4
MAKE MORE.
memento_mori - wrote on 09/23/2013
I'm going to start off simple this time:
This is Woody Allen's best film to date.
It looks and sounds incredible. I can't use the word 'beautiful' enough to describe the way this film looks, sounds and feels at its core aesthetically.
It looks like something straight out of Allen's mind. Pulled out of a random day-dream and worked on to develop into a screenplay. The writing is superb, especially the dialogue and way of line delivery. It's a bit of a throwback to Annie Hall, but it's done much smoother and not with such forced intimacy as seen in Annie Hall.
Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams are perfectly cast. Wilson even looks a bit like a young Woody Allen if you look at him from far away. Either way, he played the part convincingly. The look on his face when he realized he went …
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3.5/4
Classic Woody on Romanticism & Relationships -
stephskie67 - wrote on 04/13/2013
If this movie doesn't make you want to up sticks and move to Paris instantly, you must be as dead as a cold dead fish that's been dead for a really, really long time. The beautiful imagery of the Parisian streets, lights, bridges, markets, monuments, cafes, bars and even the muddy Seine itself seem to explode with vibrancy and colour (especially in the rain). Owen Wilson plays Gil, a troubled and insecure writer trying to escape from the grind of rolling out formulaic Hollywood scripts so that he can use his writing talents in a more edifying way. His fiancée, Inez (played by Rachel McAdams), is not particularly supportive of his desired career change (nor of him in general it seems) and her 'one-dimensional' parents are openly dismissive of Gil and are generally the kind of people …
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1.5/4
The grass is always greener..
theCriticalMarisa - wrote on 03/20/2012
For me this movie sort of just.. was. It's a romantic comedy that isn't really comedic or romantic. It's just a story. It has a moral, so I'll call it a fable.
The concept is interesting and my favorite parts were definitely the scenes with all the famous people from the 1920's. The actual plot was stale, in my opinion. How many times can the whole "the grass is greener, or is it?" theme be done? This movie takes said stale plot, adds some beautiful imagery and more mainstream actors than you can imagine (maybe that's what took away from the movie; every 2 minutes I was going "oh, look!" i.e., "oh, look, Loki!" or "oh, look the Pianist!"). And while I was thrilled to see these people and they gave great, although brief, performances, the shiny things didn't distract me from use-by …
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2/4
Midnight in Paris review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 02/05/2012
Literary fanatics and Paris lovers would definitely enjoy this though the director's previous efforts were funnier. Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a writer with his fiancé, Inez (Rachel McAdams) are in Paris. One evening Gil gets drunk and is invited by a group of people in a 1920’s car. He stumbles upon Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who take him to meet Ernest Hemingway. Gil then realizes that he isn’t compatible with Inez. One of the few humorous scenes was the lost detective and communism remark. The comical scenes were dry and focused on the locations and costumes.
Two best lines that somewhat sums up the film’s premise: Paul – “Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present, the name for this denial is golden age thinking the …
