Midnight in Paris

Woody Allen is a genious. Decades of original talent take shape -before the skepticals- by over 80 awards received along his career. 

His scripts are known for taking comedy to its most intelectual side, often recurring to characters  struggling with existencial dilemma, sometimes  because they just can't help it.

Midnight in Paris is a film to enojy not only to Allen followers, but to bohemian and Paris lovers. Those who remember the 1920s as one of the most prolific artistic life in the city. 

From the last decade is because of this movie and Match Point that Woody Allen will be remembered. 

Owen Wilson, in the best character he has ever play reminds me -positively- of Woody Allen style in Annie Hall. Surprisedly, Rachel McAdams' role fits like a glove   (I start thinking her best roles are those of rich-spoiled-girl, just remember The Notebook).

Plot takes place in the City of Light, who also leads the story, where Wilson's, a screenwriter about to become a novel writer, questions the posibility of moving to the French capital once he gets married with McAdams. He wants to live as those artists from the past who give Paris her reputation.

From there we find multiple memorable characters such as conceived Paul

(Martin Sheen in a great performance) and a continuos march of stars playing intelectuales sush as Ernest Hemingway, Luis Buñuel,   Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stain and Salvador Dalí, among others. These two, well played by oustanding Kathy Bates and Adrien Brody.

Brody simply steals every scene he appears in and transmit the genius from which Dali is known for. He deserves an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for this brief but valuable performance.

The end is not as important as the journey, where beautiful Marion Cottilard will atracct men from Picasso to Matisse (no matter if the second comes first in time),  it will be a little detour before so delicious adventure on parisian streets and Van Gogh's starry nights.

Inspired by the time Paris was the center of art, and by the legacy left by French impressionism, Midnight in Paris is an authentic surreal course in the most visited city of the world. Only Paris is magic after midnight.

Spanish version here