A brilliant way of getting connected to the past

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2011)

Gil is a writer fascinated by the life style of the intellectuals and artists during the twenties in Paris. During his stay in Paris, with his fiancée and her parents, he seeks for inspiration and try to connect to the spirit of those years. During the nights, instead of going out with his bride, her parents and friends, who don't present any interest to him, he prefers to walk through the streets of Paris. During these walks, he connects to the things which fascinate him. This is the point I want to stress: the way that Woody Allen found to show this connection is brilliant. More precisely, Gil takes a ride with people of the twenties, in a car of the twenties which passes on the street where he is. This ride takes him to the places where important people get together: parties, reunions etc. In these events, he meets Cole Porter, who plays and sings, he talks to the couple Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Luis Bunel, Salvador Dali and so on. The interaction with these characters from the twenties helps him find himself. At the end of the film, he annul his engagement with his rich and boring fiancée from his rich bride and boring and decides to stay in Paris, in the company of a girl from Paris, that has the simple style that inspires him.