On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, I found myself alone in my sister’s house and strangely didn’t feel like picking up a book and reading. Try as I might, I could not figure out the TV system and its multitude of remote controls. So, I decided to watch a video on my laptop and discovered the new Woody Allen movie, Midnight in Paris.
As an old English ed major, I found this film delightful. It stars Owen Wilson as a writer who is in modern day Paris on a vacation. He is in love with the idea of the expatriates who became known as the Lost Generation of the 1920s. One evening, at the stroke of midnight, he suddenly finds himself in the company of all of his literary and artistic heroes (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda, Gertrude Stein (played by Kathy Bates!), Picasso, Cole Porter, and many others). He becomes somewhat addicted to this nightly historical journey. Through the course of the movie he learns a few things about himself (as you might expect) and it ends satisfactorily. It’s a romantic comedy, but it’s not the typical rom-com fare we tend to see nowadays. I highly recommend it, especially if you are a reader.
Movie: Midnight in Paris (2011 – Directed by Woody Allen)
