Midnight in Paris is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to face the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancee and their different aims, which becomes exaggerated as he travels back into the past every night at midnight. The film explores the themes of nostalgia and modernism.
Produced by Spanish group Mediapro and Gravier Productions based in the US, movie stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, and Michael Sheen. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on May 20, 2011. The film was opened for critical acclaim and has been frequently cited as one of Allen's best films in recent years. In 2012, the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay; and was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Art Direction.
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Plot
In 2010, Gil Pender, a successful yet creative Hollywood scriptwriter, and her fiancé Inez, were in Paris on holiday with rich and conservative Inez parents. Gil is struggling to finish his first novel, centering on a man who works at a nostalgic shop. Inez put aside his ambitions as romantic daydreams, and encouraged him to stick to the profitable writing of scenarios. Gil is considering moving to Paris (which he notes, much to his anxious fiancé, is in the most beautiful in the rain). Inez intends to stay in Malibu. Coincidentally, they joined Inez's friend Paul, who was described as a rambling and pseudo-intellectual person, and his wife, Carol. Paul speaks with great authority but the questionable accuracy on the important points in Paris to the point that even contradicts a tour guide in Musà ©  © e Rodin, and insists that his knowledge of Rodin's relationship is more accurate than his guide. Inez admired him; Gil thought it was unbearable.
The wine tasting night made Gil drunk and he decided to take a walk in Paris to return to the hotel; Inez goes with Paul in a taxi. He paused to look again at his location. At midnight, a 1920s car pulled up beside him, and the passengers, dressed in 1920s clothes, urged him to join them. They had a party for Jean Cocteau attended by eminent people from Paris in the 1920s: Cole Porter and his wives Linda Lee Porter, Zelda, and Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda got bored at the party and encouraged Scott and Gil to go with him. They headed first to the Bricktops where they saw Josephine Baker dancing, and then to a cafe, where they met with Ernest Hemingway and Juan Belmonte. Zelda was annoyed when Hemingway said his novel was weak, and he led with Belmonte to St. Germain, followed shortly after by Scott, who did not like the thought of his wife and the toreador. After discussing the writings, Hemingway offers to show Gil's novel to Gertrude Stein. When Gil exits the building to retrieve his manuscript from his hotel, he finds that he has returned to 2010; the bar where the 1920s literati was drinking now is a laundromat.
The following night, Gil wants to share his time travel experience with Inez. He drops Gil before the clock shows midnight. Soon, the same car returned; Gil joined Hemingway on his way to visit a friend. Gil was introduced to Gertrude Stein and other friends in his apartment: Pablo Picasso and his lover Adriana. Adriana and Gil are immediately attracted to each other. Stein read aloud the first line of the novel:
Adriana says that she is lured by several lines and always has a longing for the past, especially Belle ÃÆ' â € ° poque.
Gil went on his way for the next few nights. Inez is distracted in boulevards and bistros and wandering Gil. His father was suspicious and hired a private detective to follow him. Adriana has his time with Picasso and Hemingway, and finally Gil, though he is in conflict with his interest in him. Gil tells of his troubles to Salvador DalÃÆ', Man Ray, and Luis Buà ¥ uel, but since they are surrealists, they do not see anything strange about his claims coming from the future, finding that it is a normal thing.
Each discusses the impossibility of Gil's relationship with Adriana, and as an artist, what art of each can come from romance. Gil will suggest a movie plot to BuÃÆ' Â ± uel which is why he tried to understand the purpose of the plot.
Inez and his parents went to Mt. San Michel while Gil meets Gabrielle, an antique dealer and fellow admirer of the Lost Generation. He purchased the Cole Porter gramophone record, and then found Adriana's diary from the 1920s at a bookstore in the Seine, revealing that he fell in love with her. Reading that she dreamed of receiving her earring gift and then making love to her, Gil tried to take a pair of Inez earrings to give to Adriana, but was thwarted by Inez's return to the hotel room.
Gil bought an earring for Adriana. Back in the past, he found it at a party and told him, "I feel there are some complicated feelings you have for me." He took her for a walk, they kissed, and she gave her earrings. While he wore it, the horse-drawn carriage took to the streets, and a pair of well-dressed couples in the carriages invited Gil and Adriana to stay. Trains carry passengers to Belle ÃÆ'â € poque, the Adriana era considers the Golden Age of Paris. Gil and Adriana go first to Maxim's Paris, then to the Moulin Rouge where they meet Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and Edgar Degas. Gil asks what they think is the best era, and all three determine that the greatest era is the Renaissance. Adriana is fascinated with the work of designing ballet costumes and proposing to Gil to keep them alive, but Gil, while observing that different people yearn for the different "golden age", has enlightenment and realizes that despite the nostalgic attraction, into a boring "gift," so it's best to receive your real gift. However Adriana chose to live in the 1890s, and they parted ways.
Gil rewrote the first two chapters of his novel and took his draft from Stein, who praised his progress as a writer and told him that Hemingway liked him, but the question why the main character has not realized that his fiancee (based on Inez) had an affair with rambling character (based on Paul).
Gil returns to 2010 and faces Inez. He claimed to have slept with Paul, but regarded him as meaningless. Gil broke up with him and decided to move to Paris. In the midst of Inez's grief, Gil quietly leaves, after which Inez's father tells him and his mother that he follows her, even though the detective disappears mysteriously. It was revealed that the detective found himself in Versailles from Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and was last seen escaping from the palace guard in the middle of the threat of "Go with his head!"
While walking on the midnight Seine, Gil bumps into Gabrielle, and, after the rain begins to fall, he offers to walk home and they learn that they share Paris's love in the rain.
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Cast
The players include (in credit order):
This is the second time McAdams and Wilson starred as a couple; they did it before 2005 Wedding Crashers . In comparing two roles, McAdams described the one in Midnight in Paris as much more antagonistic than the role of the Wedding Crashers. Allen has a high praise for her performance and as a star with Marion Cotillard. Cotillard plays another love of Wilson, a charismatic Adriana.
Carla Bruni, singer-songwriter and wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, was recruited by Allen for the role of museum guide. There are false reports that Allen filmed Bruni's scenes again with LÃ © Å © a Seydoux, but Seydoux dismisses this rumor which reveals that he has a completely separate role in the film. Allen also shot a report that a scene with Bruni takes more than 30 times: "I was surprised I read these things and I can not trust my eyes... This is not exaggeration, but the discovery from the beginning. truth. "He continues to portray Bruni as" very professional "and insists he is happy with his scene, stating that" every frame will appear in the movie. "
Production
Write
Allen used the reverse approach in writing scenarios for the film, by building a movie plot around the title of the movie, 'Midnight in Paris'. The passage of time from Allen's storyline is evocative of the Paris of the 1920s described in Ernest Hemingway's memoirs A Moveable Feast, with Allen's characters interacting with the likes of Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and uses the phrase "a movable party" in two instances, with copies of books appearing in one scene. Allen originally wrote Gil's character as an east coast intellectual, but he thought about it again when he and casting director Juliet Taylor began to consider Owen Wilson for the role. "I think Owen will be charming and funny but my fear is that he is not so east at all in his personality," said Allen. Allen realized that making Gil a California would actually make the characters richer, so he rewrote the passage and handed it to Wilson, who gladly agreed to do so. Allen described it as a "natural actor". The set-up has a certain plot point similar to the English sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart .
Filming
The subject of photography began in Paris in July 2010. Allen stated that the fundamental aesthetic for camera work is to give the film a warm atmosphere. He explains that he likes (cinematography), "very red, very warm, because if you go to a restaurant and you are there with your wife or girlfriend, and it's got a red and turn-on-the wallpaper - , You both look beautiful, whereas if you are in a seafood restaurant and the lights are on, everyone looks terrible, so it looks good, very flattering and very beautiful. "To achieve this, he and his cinematographer Darius Khondji use warm colors especially in film photography, was filmed in more flat weather and using limited camera movements, in an attempt to draw a little attention to himself. This is the first Woody Allen film to go through digital intermediaries, instead of being colored in traditional photochemical ways. According to Allen, his use here is a test to see if he likes it enough to be used on his films in the future.
Allen's director style emphasizes the romantic and realistic elements of film rather than fantasy elements. He stated that he was "only interested in this romantic story, and anything that contributed to it was a fairy tale for me, I did not want to go in. I just wanted to get into what he burdened (Owen) Wilson) with Marion. "
- Locations
The film opens with 3 Ã, 1 / 2 -minute postcard-view montage Paris, showing some tourist sites iconic. Kenneth Turan from Los Angeles Times describes the montage as a style approach that lasts longer than necessary to simply locate the location. According to Turan, "Allen says: Pay attention - this is a special place, a place where magic can happen." Midnight in Paris is the first Woody Allen film to be filmed entirely on location in Paris, though both Love and Death (1975) and Everyone Say I Love You (1996) was filmed partly there.
The shooting locations include Giverny, John XXIII Square (near Notre Dame), Montmartre, Deyrolle, Palace of Versailles, Opà © ra, Pont Alexandre III, SacrÃÆ' © -Coeur, ÃÆ'Žle de la CitÃÆ'  © themselves, and streets nearby PanthÃÆ' © in.
Marketing
The film was co-produced by Allen Gravier Productions and the Catalan Mediapro company and taken by Sony Pictures Classics for distribution. This is the fourth film produced by the two companies, the other being Sweet and Lowdown, Any Working You and You Will Meet a Dark Dark .
In promoting the film, Allen was willing to do only limited publicity at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Wilson is already committed to promoting Pixar's Cars 2 , which opens at the end of June, a few weeks after Allen's movie arrives at the cinema. Due to this challenge and a relatively small budget ($ 10 million) for promotion, Sony Classics must make careful media purchases and press relationships to promote the film.
This movie poster is a reference to Vincent van Gogh's painting in 1889 The Starry Night .
Release
box office
The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 on Wednesday 11 May, when opening the festival as the first airing for professionals and the public; it was released nationally in France on the same day, Wednesday became a day of traditional change in French cinema. The film was released in limited to six theaters in the United States on May 20 and took $ 599,003 on the first weekend, spreading to 944 theaters three weeks later, when it was widely launched.
Midnight in Paris reached the highest gross of the Allen films in North America, before adjusting to inflation. The film earned $ 56.3 million in North America, surpassing the best ever, Hannah and His Sisters , for $ 40 million.
In 2016, Midnight in Paris is the highest grossing film directed by Woody Allen, with $ 151 million worldwide with a $ 17 million budget.
Critical reception
Midnight in Paris received critical acclaim. In Rotten Tomatoes, the film received 93% approval ratings, based on 208 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The critical consensus of this site reads, "Probably does not boast the depth of the classic movie, but sentimental is sweet. Paris is cute and enthralling enough to satisfy Woody Allen fans. " The film has received Allen's best reviews and scores on this site since 1994's Bullets Over Broadway . At Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 40 reviews, showing "universal recognition".
The film received some generally positive reviews after its premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter praised Darius Khondji's cinematography and claimed the film "has the conclusions and quick steps of Allen's best work".
A. O. Scott of The New York Times commented on Owen Wilson's success in playing Woody Allen's persona. He stated that the film is very romantic and credible blends "imagination and wisdom". He praised the cinematography of Khondji, the supporting cast and said that this is a memorable movie and that "Mr. Allen often said he did not want or expect his own work to survive but as simple and light as the Midnight in Paris is, it shows the opposite: It is not the ambition to immortality so much the willingness to leave something behind - a little bit of memorabilia, or art, if you like a better word - that catches attention and collects the admiration of a lonely nomad in the future.
Roger Ebert gives movie stars 3 1 / 2 of 4. He ends his review as follows:
This is the 41 film Woody Allen. He wrote his own film, and directed them with intelligence and elegance. I consider it a treasure trove of cinema. Some people just take it for granted, though Midnight in Paris is reportedly mesmerized even the weary veterans of Cannes's press screenings. There is nothing that is not liked about it. Whether you're connected to it or not. I'm tired of movies for "everyone" - which means no one. Midnight in Paris is for me, specifically, and that's fine with moi . "
Richard Roeper, an American film critic, gave Midnight in Paris an "A"; calling it a "beautiful movie" and "one of the best romantic comedies in recent years". He commented that the actors were evenly brilliant and praised the use of movies from smart one-liners.
In The Huffington Post Rob Kirkpatrick said the film represented the return of the form for the director ("as Woody had found Woody") and called the "Midnight in Paris" a surprising movie that cast a spell above us and reminds us of the magical nature of cinema, and especially the Woody Allen movie. "
Midnight in Paris has been compared to Allen Rose Purple Cairo (1985), in the sense that the function of magical realism in it is never explained. David Edelstein, New York , praised the approach, stating that it eliminates, "sci-fi and pulley wheels that tend to suck up so much screen time in movie travel time." He went on to praise the film that stated, "This supernatural comedy is not only the best film of Allen in more than a decade, it is the only one who managed to rise above a neat and easy, graceful and funny looking, supported by a confusing heroic charm. "
Peter Johnson of PopCitizen feels that the nature of the film as a "cut-off period" is far superior to the comedic component, which he refers to as lacking. "While the timing of the" Midnight in Paris "almost deserves to see the movie... it hardly qualifies as a moral compass for those lost in nostalgia," he asserted.
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal acknowledged the cast and the look of the film and, despite some familiarity with the film conflict, praised Allen's work on the film. He writes, "For filmmakers who bring this intertwined world into being, this film represents a new energy in a remarkable career."
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, gave the film 3 of 5 stars, describing it as "a friendly-cheer-bouche " and "entertaining sporadically, lightly, superficially, independently-copied. "He went on to add that it was" a romantic fantasy adventure to be compared with ideas far superior to his comparative youth, like the 1985 film The Purple Rose of Cairo. " In October 2013, the film was chosen by Guardian readers as the ninth best film directed by Woody Allen.
Even more intense is Richard Corliss of Time, who describes the film as "pure Woody Allen, which is not said to be great or even good, Woody, but the distillation of filmmakers' passion and crotchets, and his tendency to go through harsh judgments on a character that the audience should not like... Midnight strikes are not a sublime bell but clangor snapshots and fantasy frills. "
Quentin Tarantino named Midnight in Paris as his favorite movie of 2011.
The film was well received in France. The Allocine website (Hello Cinema) gave it 4.2 out of 5 stars based on a sample of twenty reviews. Ten of the reviews gave it five full stars, including Le Figaro , who praised the movie's generation of themes and said "someone left the screening with a smile on someone's lips".
Faulkner real
The William Faulkner estate then filed a lawsuit against Sony Pictures Classics for a little film dialogue, "The past did not die, in fact, it never even passed," a paraphrase of the often quoted line of Faulkner's book in 1950 Requiem for a nuns ("The past never dies, it never passes."), claiming that paraphrase is the use of unlicensed real. Faulkner is directly credited in the dialogue when Gil claims to have met the author at a dinner party (though Faulkner was never physically depicted in the film). Julie Ahrens from the Fair Use Project at the Stanford University Center for Internet and Society was quoted as saying in response to the allegations, "The idea that one person can control the use of certain words seems foolish to me." All sorts of literary allusions are usually celebrated. fall in that tradition. "Sony's response states that they regard the act of" frivolous suits ". In July 2013, a federal judge in Mississippi dismissed the lawsuit on the basis of fair use. Accolades
Home media
The soundtrack was released on December 9, 2011, and was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 20, 2011.
References
External links
- Official website (US)
- Official website (French)
- Jonathan Jones: "Midnight in Paris: beginner's guide to modernism" The Guardian , October 11, 2011.
- Midnight in Paris at Rotten Tomatoes
- Midnight in Paris on IMDb
- Midnight in Paris in the TCM Film Database
- Midnight in Paris at AllMovie
- Midnight in Paris at The Numbers
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