Midnight in Paris, 2011

I'm from the '20s, and I'm telling you the golden age is la Belle Epoque

Who has never dreamed of moving to Paris after watching too much French films as a child or as a teenager or even as an adult? Who has never told himself, like Oscar from Bitter Moon, that when I become rich, I’ll move to «The City of Hemingway, Miller and Scott Fitzgerald»?

Gil Pender is one of these men, who are dissatisfied with the present. On his trip to Paris he gets the magic ticket to Paris of the 1920s. Gil is happy, every night he could escape his fiancé, boring father-in-law, pseudointellectual professor…

«Midnight in Paris» recreates Paris of our dreams: the fairytale city, the festive city. In the Woody Allen’s Paris you could bump in Scott Fitzgerald, ask Gertrude Stein to review your book and, finally, to fall in love with Picasso’s model. However, such dreams have a very bad feature – they do not come true.

Irony of Woody Allen is rather kind. There always would be people dreaming about coming to the 1920s, the la Belle Epoque, the Renaissance or even earlier. It is fruitless to try to find solace for your dreams in the past. Instead, you should fulfill your dreams in the present.

Do it!

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