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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2011 10:47:57 GMT
Well, the new Woody Allen movie will absolutely enthrall anybody who is in love with tourist Paris. The monuments and streets are beautifully filmed, there isn't a piece of trash or a gypsy beggar anywhere, and the only establishments that exist are five star hotels and five star restaurants.
Nevertheless, the film is quite charming, and Owen Wilson is perhaps better than he has ever been. Other actors like Adrien Brody and Kathy Bates have delightfully quirky roles.
Anyport regulars will immediately recognize a couple of the more unusual places such as the flea market and the Musée des Arts Forains (the place I visited on Christmas eve with the old time carnival attractions).
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Post by lagatta on May 15, 2011 0:36:18 GMT
Kerouac, I think you are in the wrong thread. But I might like that film, silly as that scrubbed Paris is. That sounds like an interesting cast. Are there any French actors and actresses?
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 5:04:10 GMT
Indeed, I was on the wrong branch! How did that happen? (Sabotage?) Anyway, it is now in the place where it belongs.
Among the French cast, there is Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Gad Elmaleh, Carla Bruni..... (Yes, I know that Gad Elmaleh was born in Morocco and grew up in Montréal.)
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 5:24:57 GMT
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Post by bjd on May 15, 2011 6:23:00 GMT
Is it already out in Paris? I thought it would be later.
In an interview, Woody Allen said he especially chose all those nice postcardy views of Paris because that's what tourists' fantasties of Paris are.
In the trailer, I find it a bit strange to see Owen Wilson channeling Woody Allen, but as long as it's funny, that's okay with me and I'll go see it when it gets here.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2011 10:26:02 GMT
It was released in France on Wednesday and in Spain on Friday. Other countries must wait a bit.
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Post by lola on May 21, 2011 14:32:21 GMT
If I can forgive the Fred and Ginger movies for being set among the scrubbed and well-heeled, I should forgive Woody Allen, too. Very expensive hotel rooms would be his frame of reference.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2011 16:43:59 GMT
I think it opened in NYC and Los Angeles yesterday.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 22, 2011 2:32:45 GMT
It's got to be better than that Barcelona thing he did. I wish I didn't dislike Owen Wilson so much.
The line, "He's walking around Paris.", said with an exasperated roll of the eyes was truly funny.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2011 20:10:20 GMT
From the LA Times:
Meanwhile, Allen's "Midnight in Paris" continues to do solid business. The movie starring Owen Wilson as a struggling writer who longs to live in 1920s Paris collected $3.5 million over four days, according to an estimate from distributor Sony Pictures Classics. That's already more than the director's last film, 2010's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," grossed over its entire North American run. Though that movie made $31 million abroad, it only had $3.2 million in ticket sales domestically.
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Post by thill25 on Jun 17, 2011 18:38:17 GMT
It's got to be better than that Barcelona thing he did. I wish I didn't dislike Owen Wilson so much. The line, "He's walking around Paris.", said with an exasperated roll of the eyes was truly funny. I liked Vicky Christina Barcelona.  Midnight in Paris looks pretty good. I hope it's the Owen Wilson from Bottlerocket and not the Owen Wilson from his last 10 films.  |
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Post by bjd on Jun 17, 2011 19:02:00 GMT
It's Owen Wilson channeling Woody Allen.
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