Midnight in Paris
DVD - 2011
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Add a Quote"That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me."
"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
"That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying."
"No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."
"Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in - it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."
Hemingway: Have you ever made love to a truly great woman?
Gil: Actually, my fiancee is pret-ty sexy.
Hemingway: And when you make love to her you feel true and beautiful passion and you, for at least that moment, lose your fear of death.
Gil: No. That doesn't happen.
Hemingway: I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino hunters I know, or Belmonte, who is truly brave, it is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds. Until it returns, as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again.
Think about it.
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Add a CommentWhy have I not heard of this movie before? So romantic... so beautiful!! The scenery, magnifique! The artists...Toulouse Lautrec, Dalì (my favorite), Gauguin (my least favorite), all the writers you'd ever want to meet. What Alice in Wonderland is to kids, Midnight in Paris is to adults. It's a feast for the eyes. Woody Allen created a Masterpiece. Extraordinaire! N'est pas? And that's the extent of my French!
A solid drama that teaches a lesson many need to learn. Owen Wilson plays a modern tourist in Paris who romanticizes the past and then is transported there.
I love Woody Allen films especially this one and would love to tour Paris some day it looks so beautiful. This movie I thought about what it would be like to meet all those writers, artists, and/or performers from Paris in the past it was so special to see and this is one of Woody's best films it is a must see.
A genius of a movie by a genius filmmaker about genius.
This movie is fantastic- a trip back to the late 19th century and a journey into everyone's imagination.
Owen Wilson's character takes a walk and is transported back in time to meet some of the 19th century's greatest characters. Have a notepad ready to write down names like Djuna Barnes and learn about history's storied characters both recognizable and researchable.
It was a great adventure and I look forward to watching it again.
Owen Wilson always seems lost, in this movie even more so. How anyone with any sort of talent would marry into that kind of family is even more unreal than the script. I guess I just didn't get it but I gave up midway.
For a Woody Allen movie, this was pretty good. The only one of his films I can tolerate.
Watched it for the second time. Loved the scenes of Paris obviously as she used to be, one never sees it so uncrowded now. The story unfolding around these wonderful artists and celebrities of the past was magical to me, and as always there’s good music.
This is a surprisingly good movie, largely because it contains a rather fun and totally unexpected plot twist (IF you haven't read any of the summaries). There is also a long, lovely beginning to the movie of nothing more than views of Paris.
Woody Allen's best. A great ensemble of talent. Owen Wilson is perfect. And Paris? Belle toujours - l'étoile parfaite.