In spite of mostly laudatory reviews, this movie is a disappointment.

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2011)

Howard Schuman has nailed it.There is hardly anything he has left to say about this movie, during which my wife actually went to sleep. In spite of the almost universally laudatory reviews it has received, I found it disappointingly shallow. The famous characters of 20s Paris are caricatures, particularly Hemingway, and mostly are an insult to the audience's intelligence. It's like attending an elementary school class of Who was Who in the literary and artistic Paris of the time. Owen Wilson's performance, channeling Woody Allen, is often embarrassingly naive and the character's final decision undermines the film's ostensible message which anyway is a cliché. Paris is pretty, Marion Cotillard and Adrian Brody are good, but apart from that forget it.