To Live in Another Time

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2012)

It's a movie that romanticizes Paris—extolling all it's magic and beauty—while belying the theme we always over-romanticize the world outside our realm.
It's immensely entertaining and like other Woody Allen films it's not necessarily laugh out loud funny as much as it's quietly smirking to oneself funny.
Rachel McAdams sheds her perfect, big-eyed nice girl role to play a vain, arrogant socialite while still being completely believable. Owen Wilson, who has been a screenwriter, gives a nice balance between young-boy-like-wonderment with a scared, always doubtful, realist.
The world it creates in 1920's Paris is amazing with beautiful sets, costumes, lighting, cars, and many other nice touches to make us feel like we're there.
See this movie because it's overly romantic while still picking fun at itself in the way only Woody Allen can.