Thanks to Allen

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2011)

As others wrote before me, this is one of the best Allen movies. Although it never explains how Pender manages to get back to "normal" Paris (something which only occurred to me several days after seeing the film), it raises again the usual Allen topics, fans or haters will not be disappointed. What struck me is the fact that this film has the same love for Paris as some illustrious predecessors. "Funny face" (Astaire/Hepburn) and "An American in Paris" spring to mind. Allen's version of Paris is possibly too "postcard-ish", but this is cinema and optimistic cinema anyway. Great thanks must be awarded to Allen for wonderfully advertising Paris as a vacation resort and also for his use of a great cast of French supporting actors who might get this way more visibility in the USA (I don't include Cotillard and Bruni in that bunch - but for quite different reasons)