A beautifully filmed picture postcard of Paris now and in the past

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2011)

A frustrated American writer (Owen Wilson playing a role Allen would have played himself 30 years ago)on his hols in Paris with his obnoxious, materialistic fiancé finds his midnight strolls turning into time travel back to Paris' golden years of the 1920s and the 1880s and along the way meets all manner of artistic and literary greats from Paris' past such as Dali, Scott-Fitzgerald, Hemingway,Metisse etc and in the doing so realises that the past isn't as important as now. Both Wilson and Marion Cotillard shine in their roles as does Michael Sheen as a pedantic and ultimately sleazy friend of Wilson's fiancé. With great acting and beautifully filmed its a wonderful postcard of Paris now and in the past... 8/10