Midnight In Paris

[jazzy_dave]

I must fell asleep well before bedtime as now i am fully awake again. I had been watching a film on DVD and then an episode of Charmed before i fell off to sleep. The DVD was the Woody Allen movie , starring Owen Wilson, called Midnight In Paris. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night at midnight. The movie explores themes of nostalgia and modernism.In his post midnight walk he meets his famous idols, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Man Ray,and so on. It is a lovely film interspersed with some fine ld music.

Here is a clip where unbeknownst to him he has slipped into the roaring twenties.

And when he meets the surrealists,

I loved it,

Comments

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

I loved that movie too! :-)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

It sounds interesting, but I don't really care for Woody Allen or Owen Wilson. :p
Hugs, Jon

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Time travel movies can be a lot of fun, but if you have never read Jack Finney's Time and Again (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Again_(novel)), I highly recommend it.  Not only does the author do his homework (exhaustively!) but there are fun touches scattered throughout.  For example, the main character (Si) and his companion Julia are on the run from bad guys:


        They are able to flee, but have no money and
        nowhere to go. They shelter in the as-yet-
        unassembled Statue of Liberty's arm, then
        standing in Madison Square. (Again, the arm
        standing in Madison Square Park prior to the
        statue as a whole being erected is a factual
        event). Si tells Julia the whole story, but she
        takes it as entertaining fantasy. She is soon
        convinced otherwise, as Si brings them both into
        the present, and she observes the dawn from high
        inside the long-assembled statue, seeing a
        totally strange New York…


More specifically, he works the magic (or whatever) and knows he's succeeded when Julia screams in terror - instead of being maybe twenty feet up over solid ground, she suddenly finds herself hundreds of feet in the air over the Atlantic Ocean!  [That's a long drop from that torch, straight down…]