Midnight in Paris- Woody & His Philosophy of Life ***

Rating: 8/10 (1 April 2012)

Woody Allen, as always, tries to find the true meaning of life in an upbeat way in this 2011 romantic comedy.
Too bad that Allen wasn't younger, he could have easily played the part which was done quite well by Owen Wilson.
A young writer and his girlfriend come to parents along with her parents, just before they are married. By a quirk of fate, Wilson is transported back to the 1920s and meets the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Salvadore Dali, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and so many others from that grand period.
Everyone is marvelous here in depicting their famous people they are playing.
While the '20s was certainly a golden era, the film shows what can happen when one of the people goes back to the 1890s.
Reality always wins out and at least by film's end, Wilson realizes where he belongs and with whom he does not.