Midnight in Paris

Theatrical Release Date: 2011 05 20 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 043396385269

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Sexual Situations, Smoking]

Summary: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni star in Woody Allen's romantic comedy about a family on a business trip in the City of Light. As a young couple engaged to be married experiences a profound transformation during their visit to Paris, an idealistic man with a romanticized view of the city finds that there's plenty of truth to that old adage about the grass being greener on the other side. Michael Sheen, Mimi Kennedy, and Kurt Fuller co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Cinematography – Independent Spirit Awards Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Top Ten Film of the Year – New York Film Critics Online Best Comedy – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Original Screenplay – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Comedy or Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Original Screenplay – Writers Guild of America Best Screenplay – National Society of Film Critics Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Directors Guild of America Best Picture – Producers Guild of America Best Picture – Producers Guild of America Best Edited Feature - Comedy or Musical – American Cinema Editors Guild Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Male – Independent Spirit Awards Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Presented – Cannes Film Festival Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Midnight in Cannes

Midnight in Paris

Format: DVD

Release Date: 12/20/2011

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD3.0 Dolby Digital 3.0

Runtime: 94 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Midnight In Cannes
1. Scene 1 [5:08]
2. Scene 2 [7:04]
3. Scene 3 [3:52]
4. Scene 4 [7:45]
5. Scene 5 [5:19]
6. Scene 6 [6:23]
7. Scene 7 [7:17]
8. Scene 8 [4:47]
9. Scene 9 [6:01]
10. Scene 10 [4:39]
11. Scene 11 [5:40]
12. Scene 12 [6:50]
13. Scene 13 [7:04]
14. Scene 14 [6:15]
15. Scene 15 [4:15]
16. Scene 16 [5:47]

Perry Seibert

With less than memorable work like Scoop, Anything Else, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion under his belt, Woody Allen appeared to have lost any real fire for directing comedies. While dramas like Match Point seemed to tickle his muse, his comedies have become perfunctory at best, and downright lazy at worst. That's what makes the endlessly amusing and sneakily profound Midnight in Paris such a wonderful surprise. The movie stars Owen Wilson as Gil, a successful screenwriter who's in Paris with his fianc?e, Inez (Rachel McAdams). Gil is trying to finish his first novel, and he draws inspiration from the city because his fantasy is to live in the Paris of the 1920s, rubbing shoulders nightly with heavy hitters like Cole Porter, Pablo Picasso, and other legendary artists. Amazingly, one night while he's out alone on a walk, there must be magic in the air since his time-traveling dream comes true. Soon he's getting advice on his writing from Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates), befriending Zelda Fitzgerald (Alison Pill), and learning how to love truly from Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll). And Gil needs direction in his love life more than ever after he falls for costume designer Adriana (Marion Cotillard) and begins to sense that he and Inez may not be so well matched. Owen Wilson manages to deliver Woody's patented dialogue without imitating his iconic delivery outright, and he's ideally cast because he can project awe and wonder with his wide, friendly face. Gil's a fanboy, but instead of comic books or Star Wars he's got a fetish for Paris in the Roaring '20s. And because he's having such an amazing time living out his wildest dream, we can't help but share in his goofy delight. Wilson is far from the only performer to win us over, though. Stoll scores big laughs with his interpretation of Hemingway; Woody has written this character's dialogue as a spot-on parody of/tribute to Papa's distinct prose, and Stoll delivers every line with a no-nonsense authority that accentuates the humor. Pill has a field day with Zelda's motor-mouthed speech patterns and mental instability, and Adrien Brody gets some of the biggest laughs in a cameo as Salvador Dali. The film's friendly vibe can be felt in every aspect of the production. Cinematographer Darius Khondji accentuates Paris' dreamlike qualities whether it's day or night -- or the 20th or 21st century. The lighting, both indoor and out, has a golden hue that amplifies Gil's romanticism -- Khondji even makes rain seem warm and inviting. Allen has dealt with the pleasures and dangers of romanticism before. The Purple Rose of Cairo celebrated the power of the movies to take us away from our problems, before reminding us that escape is impossible. Everyone Says I Love You celebrated an idealized world that had nothing to do with the troubles real people face. The closest Allen came to showing how to live like a romantic in a world full of pain and dissatisfaction was Manhattan -- a film that is arguably his best and ends with a wise teenager reminding Woody's middle-aged character that you have to have a little faith in people. Midnight in Paris tweaks that formula by making it about a writer who needs to have faith in himself, and it teaches that lesson with a warmheartedness that Allen hasn't displayed since Radio Days. Calling the 42nd feature film by a director in his mid-seventies "mature" may seem both inappropriate and insulting, but Woody Allen's comedy Midnight in Paris is a superior late-period work precisely because it appears that age and wisdom have finally allowed him to discover that his romantic streak can acknowledge his realist/cynical side without succumbing to it. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Woody Allen  Director 
Woody Allen  Screenwriter 
Letty Aronson  Producer 
Stephen Tenenbaum  Producer 
Jaume Roures  Producer 
Javier Mendez  Executive Producer 
Owen Wilson  Actor 
Marion Cotillard  Actor 
Rachel McAdams  Actor 
Kathy Bates  Actor 
Carla Bruni  Actor 
Adrien Brody  Actor 
Michael Sheen  Actor 
Corey Stoll  Actor 
Mimi Kennedy  Actor 
Tom Hiddleston  Actor 
Kurt Fuller  Actor 
Alison Pill  Actor 
Nina Arianda  Actor 
Léa Seydoux  Actor 

Country: Spain,USA