Woody Allen, after decades, gives his biggest Box Office hit and it's a film not to miss. Quite a delightful comedy - Midnight in Paris.
However there's only one way to catch it - torrent download, unless you can get a dvd rip-off. Since it's not likely to release in this country. Our distributors and exhibitors have better films to show.
Owen Wilson is in tremendous form; will remind you of Allen himself. So are all the actors, especially the most charming, Marion Cotillard, who was stunning in Inception.
The film is part fantasy as it takes the protagonist, a screenwriter who wants to be a novelist, into his favorite world of '20s, where he meets Hemingway, Picasso, Dali et al & falls for Adrianna (Picasso's / Hemingway's lover) played by Cotillard; oh yeah...she is the best. (hmm...got to watch La Vie En Rose, for which she won the Oscar.)
Watch it for Wilson, watch it for Cotillard, watch it for '20s characters, watch it for Allen's typical direction - photographed amazingly, soft-n-slow-n-smooth momentum, ripping off pseudo-intellectuals, lost protagonist trying to get by....
Other films you may enjoy and may need to access Torrent to view them, unless you have watched them:
Grizzly Man (2005) - superb flick, a documentary by Werner Herzog, on a man who lived in Alaskan wilderness with bears and eventually died there courtesy a bear attack; Herzog is one of the top dudes in the game along with Errol Morris. He has a thick, coarse voice, and you can sense a lively persona despite the sombre subject; he shall also play the lead villain opposite Tom Cruise in a film called, One Shot.
Horrible Bosses - funny flick, about three friends who try to kill their bosses; stars Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston besides others and all in form.
Source Code - solid concept and quite exciting; an army captain has to keep reliving for 8-mins so he can go back into a train that explodes and try catching the bomber. This one falls under the high-concept category. As a screenplay, this was rated right at the top by one of the veteran bloggers
The Adjustment Bureau - Another high-concept flick with Matt Damon. Good fun. Romantic thriller with good chemistry between Damon and Emily Blunt.
Drive - intense character-oriented film; Ryan Gosling is fundu in the slow-momentum film that has a tremendous feel to it with Carey Mulligan being the love angle; if you haven't watched the two, catch the two of the brightest young stars of Hollywood.
Tree of Life - phenomenal; may feel quite random but it's an extremely ambitious film - take on life, god, death...a family loses their kid. This should be up there for Best Film Oscar. It's magical.
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