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Movie Rec: "Midnight in Paris"
Monday, August 15th, 2011 12:25 pmWhat a pleasure to see a movie and walk out of the theater feeling so *good* about everything: good about the movie, good about the actors, good about the city, good about LIFE as a whole. "Midnight in Paris" is a delightful film, with an excellent cast that's a love letter to Paris (the city) and the little revelations you have on a daily basis about life and its tribulations and victories.
( Spoilers and plot details follow. )
In general, I'd have to say that this has displaced "Take the Money and Run" as my favorite Woody Allen film. Even with TtMaR, I was up for seeing it about once every three years or so. Most of Allen's films are so talky that I want to cry at the sheer amount of chatter and the mental effort necessary to concentrate on the overly complicated relationships between the characters. But "Midnight in Paris" didn't feel overly complicated or too bloated with pretentious dialogue. Owen Wilson's delivery of some of the lines really helped in this respect, I'm sure. But the script, in general, was more balanced than Allen's previous movies, and it worked really well.
(All this said, nothing ever fails to make me laugh like the part in TtMaR where the bank tellers are reading his robbery note aloud: "'Give me all the money. I have a gub.' What's a gub?")
( Spoilers and plot details follow. )
In general, I'd have to say that this has displaced "Take the Money and Run" as my favorite Woody Allen film. Even with TtMaR, I was up for seeing it about once every three years or so. Most of Allen's films are so talky that I want to cry at the sheer amount of chatter and the mental effort necessary to concentrate on the overly complicated relationships between the characters. But "Midnight in Paris" didn't feel overly complicated or too bloated with pretentious dialogue. Owen Wilson's delivery of some of the lines really helped in this respect, I'm sure. But the script, in general, was more balanced than Allen's previous movies, and it worked really well.
(All this said, nothing ever fails to make me laugh like the part in TtMaR where the bank tellers are reading his robbery note aloud: "'Give me all the money. I have a gub.' What's a gub?")
