Genius!

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2011)

Paris, Woody Allen, art and literature: a great movie!
"That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying"
Woody Allen is terrific in developing a deep subject into a light and entertaining romantic comedy. The nostalgia for the past and the hope for a better life and happiness in eras of great excitement like the Roaring Twenties or La Belle Epoque is explored through the fantastic adventure of Gil, whose personality and mentality grows in this past world thanks to the help of his idols: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso,...
Many of us have a favorite artist, painter or writer and we look at them as models. The wish of meeting them and experiencing their life, surrounded by many other famous artists is very common among us: who hasn't dream of living in another time period and being remembered as a great hero? Allen portrays this in a very realistic way, in a certain sense. Gil's experience is so unrealistic that becomes realistic in the movie.
Midnight is a special hour, magical in many other films. The hour when nights and dreams approach. When the impossible becomes possible.
The plot is original and amazingly set in a magical city like Paris; acting is great and the characters are perfect.
I absolutely recommend this film! :)