Midnight In Paris – Reelworld (Kent Tentschert/Carol Hemphill)

Posted by kent Jun 16, 2011 | Movie: Midnight In Paris
Midnight In Paris - Reelworld (Kent Tentschert/Carol Hemphill) Carol’s Take: First writer/director Woody Allen takes us to one of the world’s most beautiful cities, Paris. There, we meet a vacationing American couple. Gil (Owen Wilson) is a successful, but self-loathing screenwriter. He yearns for an earlier era when he might have starved in a Paris attic while writing a great novel. His fiancé (Rachel McAdams) yearns to spend Gil’s big Hollywood bucks furnishing a home in California. She belittles his goals and attitude, decrying “All that’s missing is the tuberculosis.” Magically, Gil finds himself on midnight jaunts into the City of Light’s Golden Age – the 1920s. In short order, he...