Midnight in Paris explores the fantasy that an earlier time is always better than the present - the 'golden age' syndrome as one of the (obnoxious) characters, Paul (Michael Sheen) describes it to us. Gil (Owen Wilson) finds a way to test this out by finding a midnight gateway from 21st century to 1920s Paris, that golden age of literature, art, promiscuity and excess. Gil is given a moral out which enables him to explore a fantasy with one of the lovers of both Hemingway and Dali! Gil struggles between past and present and throughout the story he lives in both. The journeys towards resolution help us to believe that the universe is ultimately ruled by the need for equilibrium and the justice that karma delivers, in their own time. This is a fun movie, especially for lovers of French and American literature and art. Strange outcome for a Woody Allen film, I reckon. 7/10
Midnight in Paris
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