Midnight in Paris
...was nominated for best film last year as a dramatic comedy that gets the audience reveling in the excitement of a story about an interesting young American couple during their vacation to the French capital. Owen Wilson who plays the part of Gil, an aspiring writer whose fiancé, Inez(Jessica Adams) and her family set out for a nice bonding experience a few months before the two plan on tying the knot. Things seem to be in place for a dazzling little reprieve for the characters who afford to partake in the niceties that Paris has to offer like comfortable accommodations and good cuisine. So what could be better? Well as Gil comes to find out in a madly enchanting rendezvous, the city has more to offer than can be seen from the surface. Humorously, he gets sucked in to a time warp taking him back to the 1920’s when the city of lights beckoned a daunting nightlife of exhilarating degree among the artists of the day. One evening of the blissful experience, of which Gil tries to keep secret from his fiancée, isn’t enough to assuage the wild side of what’s to be had by such an occasion. So for several more nights, the opportunity avails itself to take part in high falutining with the iconic members of French avant garde society back then. All the while waking up the next morning to the skeptic reality of himself and the soon to be in-laws who wander where Gil has been shuffling off to during the late evenings when he claims simply to be taking long walks for gathering writing material. Far from being a full on foreign production in another language, it offers none the less an encapsulating portrayal of a time that we probably would all like to experience if given such a chance.