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BarkellWH -> Woody Allen's New Film "Midnight in Paris" (May 29 2011 1:50:02)
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This evening I saw Woody Allen's new film "Midnight in Paris," and I highly recommend it. I thought it was a great film, with beautiful scenes of Paris and a very interesting story line incorporating Woody Allen's early style of humor. It is about a young American writer in 2010 whose ideal is 1920s Paris with its literary and artistic crowd. He takes a trip to Paris with his fiancee and her parents, all of whom are insufferably irritating, and they meet up with a couple of equally irritating friends of his fiancee. Without giving away the plot, the young writer is transported back to Paris of the 1920s, where he meets Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, and many other famous characters of that time. I will not go further, but the literary and artistic characters are spot-on, and the story has a great ending.
I am a fan of Woody Allen's early and middle periods of film-making. I did not care for his later period, which seemed to me to be too introspective, with a lot of exploration of his neurotic tendencies. Midnight in Paris takes one back to the old Woody Allen, with interesting characters, clever humor, and a great story line.
Cheers,
Bill
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