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Midnight In Paris
 February 11, 2012
Woody Allen’s postcards of Parisplays like a laundry list of who’s whoin the 1920’s, interspersed with the
most unlikely cast of shallowcontemporary characters wrestlingwith the elitist problems of our currentage. Other than the picturesquescenes of Paris, there is little to love inthis midnight rambler of a movie.
 From the irritating opening song to the lastscene of two strangers walking in the rain,Midnight in Paris is a light fantasy about Gil,a successful screenwriter lost in the past,
dreaming of a life in 1920’s Paris andabandoning all for a dream. In Gil’s case,
played by Owen Wilson in another Woodyimpersonation, his insecurity and rejection of pseudo-intellectual companionship allows him to wander thenighttime alone. He is picked up at midnight by a car fullof famous characters from another age and whisked off to
 parties and cafes and the golden life of 1920’s Americans
in Paris.His own novel about nostalgia plays a small part in hismusings over his own future, his upcoming marriage and
 
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his career decision to abandon the forgettable life of aHollywood screenwriter for the romance and struggle of an ex-patriot novelist, a la Hemingway and Fitzgerald.Gil spends his days making excuses and his nights in geewhiz amazement at the cavalcade of luminaries prancing
 before his eyes. It’s all too cute and contrived and Gil
ends up being irritating and detached to either world heinhabits; the past or the present.
From Oscar’s point of vie
w, this picture has fournominations in what is shaping up as one of the poorestyears for cinema in some time.
 Midnight in Paris
isnominated for best picture, director, original screenplayand art direction.
Best Picture:
 Midnight in Paris
,
Letty Aronson andStephen Tenenbaum, Producers
 Achievement in Directing:
Woody Allen
Original Screenplay: “
 Midnight in Paris
”
 
Written byWoody Allen 
Achievement in Art Direction:
Production Design: AnneSeibel; Set Decoration: Hélène DubreuilThere is little chance for this picture to take home anaward for best picture or director, given the competitionand the small scale and ambition of 
 Midnight in Paris
.The Art Direction does re-create the ambiance and magic
of 00

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