Independent study task_Midnight (Seminars): Watch the movie “Midnight in Paris” (2011)

and read the review (The Old Ennui and the Lost Generation” by A. O. Scott:
‘Midnight in Paris,’ by Woody Allen, With Owen Wilson - Review - The New York Times
(nytimes.com)
Independent watching and reading; answers to the questions in Task_Midnight (deadline
March 15).

TASK_MIDNIGHT

STUDENT’S NAME: Aistė Sadauskaitė

I. Questions on the movie Midnight in Paris (2011)

1) Give names of FIVE modernists writers who appear in the film.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Ernest Miller Hemingway, Gertrude Stein,
Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot.

2) Give names of FOUR modernists artists who appear in the film.

Salvador Dalí, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Man Ray, Henri Émile Benoît Matisse,
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin.

3) Write ONE statement pronounced by Ernest Hemingway in the film.

“My opinion is I hate it”, “If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing, and
if it's good, I'll be envious and hate all the more. You don't want the opinion of
another writer.”

4) Which epoch does Adriana want to mode to?

The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque.

5) Who is singing a song “Let’s Do It/ “Let’s Fall in Love” at a wild party during
one of Gil’s modernistic escapades in the film?
Yves Heck as Cole Porter.

II. Questions on the film review:

1) Whose verse is mentioned at the beginning of the review?
Robert Browning
 2) Name TWO epithets that are used to describe the film.
Charming, marvelously romantic.

3) Who is the director of the film?

Woody Allen

4) Who plays the role of a tour guide at the Musée Rodin in Paris? Whose wife is
she?
The multitalented Mme. Sarkozy (Carla Bruni Sarkozy), she is married to Nicolas
Sarkozy, who was the president of France (2007-2012).

5) What epithet is used to describe Paul – both in the film and the review?
An insufferable pedant.