Midnight in Paris
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While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
What critics thought
Woody Allen's Paris love letter landed as one of his warmest and most widely embraced films in years, with critics singling out Owen Wilson's embodiment of the Allen persona, Darius Khondji's cinematography, and the film's light-footed magical realism. Dissent centered on whether it adds up to anything more than charming froth — a handful of critics found it shallow and self-plagiarizing, measuring it unfavorably against Allen's deeper earlier work.
“this supernatural comedy isn't just Allen's best film in more than a decade; it's the only one that manages to rise above its tidy parable structure and be easy, graceful, and glancingly funny, as if buoyed by its befuddled hero's enchantment.”
David Edelstein·New York
“sporadically entertaining, light, shallow, self-plagiarising.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“pure Woody Allen. Which is not to say great or even good Woody, but a distillation of the filmmaker's passions and crotchets, and of his tendency to pass draconian judgment on characters the audience is not supposed to like. ... his Midnight strikes not sublime chimes but the clangor of snap judgments and frayed fantasy.”
Richard Corliss·Time
“For the filmmaker who brought these intertwined universes into being, the film represents new energy in a remarkable career.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
Accolades
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Woody AllenDirector
Owen WilsonGil
Rachel McAdamsInez
Kathy BatesGertrude Stein
Kurt FullerJohn
Adrien BrodySalvador Dalí
Carla BruniMuseum Guide
Marion CotillardAdriana
Michael SheenPaul
Nina AriandaCarol
Tom HiddlestonF. Scott Fitzgerald
Mimi KennedyHelen
Alison PillZelda Fitzgerald
Darius KhondjiCinematographyMidnight in Paris
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
What critics thought
Woody Allen's Paris love letter landed as one of his warmest and most widely embraced films in years, with critics singling out Owen Wilson's embodiment of the Allen persona, Darius Khondji's cinematography, and the film's light-footed magical realism. Dissent centered on whether it adds up to anything more than charming froth — a handful of critics found it shallow and self-plagiarizing, measuring it unfavorably against Allen's deeper earlier work.
“this supernatural comedy isn't just Allen's best film in more than a decade; it's the only one that manages to rise above its tidy parable structure and be easy, graceful, and glancingly funny, as if buoyed by its befuddled hero's enchantment.”
David Edelstein·New York
“sporadically entertaining, light, shallow, self-plagiarising.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“pure Woody Allen. Which is not to say great or even good Woody, but a distillation of the filmmaker's passions and crotchets, and of his tendency to pass draconian judgment on characters the audience is not supposed to like. ... his Midnight strikes not sublime chimes but the clangor of snap judgments and frayed fantasy.”
Richard Corliss·Time
“For the filmmaker who brought these intertwined universes into being, the film represents new energy in a remarkable career.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
Accolades
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Woody AllenDirectorOwen WilsonGilRachel McAdamsInezKathy BatesGertrude SteinKurt FullerJohnAdrien BrodySalvador DalíCarla BruniMuseum GuideMarion CotillardAdrianaMichael SheenPaulNina AriandaCarolTom HiddlestonF. Scott FitzgeraldMimi KennedyHelenAlison PillZelda FitzgeraldDarius KhondjiCinematographyStream
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