Midnight in Paris

If you are looking for a good film to watch, here it is:

Paris at night is magic! Who ever had the chance to see this wonderful city at night will agree. The lights of the street lamps reflecting on the Seine, the Eiffeltower sparkling, the breathtaking view from the Sacré-Coeur or from the top of the Centre Pompidou...

 

 There is one person who tried to catch the magic of Paris into a film. A film full of wit and charm, a romantic love letter to Paris. A tale of the seductive parallel world of the 1920s in Paris - all this is Woody Allen's movie "Midnight in Paris" 

"Paris in the morning is beautiful Paris in the afternoon is charming Paris in the evening is enchanting But Paris after midnight is MAGIC"

The american author Gil is on holidays in Paris with his fiancée. After a small dispute, she joins her friends to go dancing while Gil decides to walk around in Paris to get some inspiration for his new book. But when the clock anounces midnight, an old car comes across and the people inside invite Gil to join them. Together they drive into the Paris of the 1920s, where Gil meets personalities like Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel and many others.

Photographer - Roger Arpajou © 2011 Mediapro, Versátil, & Gravier Productions

I personally really liked the film! I think it shows a lot of the great charme which can only be found in Paris. Dreaming of the 'belle époque', the film is funny and moral at the same time. Even tough the characters are quite stereotyped. But nevermind the lovestory is still lovely, so take your best friend, a big cup of ice cream and dream of your own trip to Paris.

"You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights, I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe."