Midnight in Paris (2011)
In 2010, Gil Pender, a successful but disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter, and his fiancée Inez, are in Paris vacationing with Inez’s wealthy, Republican parents. Gil is struggling to finish his debut novel, focusing on a man who works in a nostalgia shop. Inez dismisses his ambition as a delusional dreamer, and encourages him to stick with lucrative screenwriting. Gil is considering moving to Paris (which he notes, much to the chagrin of his fiancée, is at its most beautiful in the rain). Inez is intent on living in Malibu. By chance, they are joined by Inez’s friend Paul, who is described as both pedantic and a pseudo-intellectual, and his wife Carol. Paul speaks with great authority but questionable accuracy on the highlights of Paris up to the point of even contradicting a tour guide at the Musée Rodin, and insisting that his knowledge of Rodin’s relationships is more accurate than that of the guide. Inez adores him; Gil finds him annoying.
A night of wine tasting gets Gil drunk and he decides to walk the streets of Paris to get back to the hotel; Inez goes off with Paul and Carol by taxi. He stops to get his bearings. At midnight, a 1920s car pulls up beside him, and the passengers, dressed in 1920s wardrobe, urge him to join them. They hit a party for Jean Cocteau attended by notable people of 1920s Paris: Cole Porter and his wife Linda Lee Porter, Zelda, and Scott Fitzgerald.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Owen WilsonGil  Rachel McAdamsInez  Marion CotillardAdriana  Tom HiddlestonF. Scott Fitzgerald  Alison PillZelda Fitzgerald  Corey StollErnest Hemingway  Adrien BrodySalvador Dalí  Kathy BatesGertrude Stein  Michael SheenPaul  Nina AriandaCarol  Carla BruniMuseum Guide  Kurt FullerJohn  Mimi KennedyHelen  Léa SeydouxGabrielle |
In 2010, Gil Pender, a successful but disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter, and his fiancée Inez, are in Paris vacationing with Inez’s wealthy, Republican parents. Gil is struggling to finish his debut novel, focusing on a man who works in a nostalgia shop. Inez dismisses his ambition as a delusional dreamer, and encourages him to stick with lucrative screenwriting. Gil is considering moving to Paris (which he notes, much to the chagrin of his fiancée, is at its most beautiful in the rain). Inez is intent on living in Malibu. By chance, they are joined by Inez’s friend Paul, who is described as both pedantic and a pseudo-intellectual, and his wife Carol. Paul speaks with great authority but questionable accuracy on the highlights of Paris up to the point of even contradicting a tour guide at the Musée Rodin, and insisting that his knowledge of Rodin’s relationships is more accurate than that of the guide. Inez adores him; Gil finds him annoying.
A night of wine tasting gets Gil drunk and he decides to walk the streets of Paris to get back to the hotel; Inez goes off with Paul and Carol by taxi. He stops to get his bearings. At midnight, a 1920s car pulls up beside him, and the passengers, dressed in 1920s wardrobe, urge him to join them. They hit a party for Jean Cocteau attended by notable people of 1920s Paris: Cole Porter and his wife Linda Lee Porter, Zelda, and Scott Fitzgerald.
