Test 2

Please select your preferred language.

請選擇你慣用的語言。

请选择你惯用的语言。

English
中文简体
台灣繁體
香港繁體

登入

記住我

初到 Fridae?

Fridae Mobile

Advertisement
Highlights

More About Us

新聞&特寫

« 較新的 | 較舊的 »
12 Oct 2011

Midnight in Paris

Inspired probably by the Moberly-Jourdain incident, Woody Allen’s latest is a scathing and yet affectionate look at our affinity for nostalgia.

Director: Woody Allen

Screenplay: Woody Allen

Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Lea Seydoux, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody, Michael Sheen

Sometime around the turn of the 20th century there was an incident subject to much ridicule that became known as the Moberly-Jourdain incident. It involved two female academics, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France on the grounds of Versailles. While numerous attempts at explaining it scientifically have been made, none quite convincing outside the most probable explanation the two women were making it up.

Trust Woody Allen however to be inspired by such an incident and turn it into a little riff on the unchanging human affinity for nostalgia. Midnight in Paris is set nearly a hundred years later, and the traveller is now American screenwriter Gil Pender (Owen Wilson). Gil is about to be married to his fiancee Inez (Rachel McAdams), and they’re on a trip in Paris where he is trying to finish his first novel. The company is full of annoying ugly American tourists. Having a museum guide who just happens to be played by current French First Lady Carla Bruni is definitely little to make up for people like know-it-all pedant such as Paul (Michael Sheen), so Gil takes off on a walk in the middle of the night just to take in Paris by himself and finds himself stepping through a timeslip into the period that he most idealises: the era of the Lost Generation in between the two world wars, where the likes of F Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali,Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway roamed the streets of the City of Lights (many of them here played by some pretty fine extended cameos from some of today’s most talented actors).

Through another meeting with Adrianna (Marion Cotillard), he comes to realize that we are all inevitably constricted by our own time, and that it’s more important to live in the present.

Or does he? If so, what use does the past serve? Trust Woody Allen to approach these questions in a manner that is easygoing but never lightweight, as one is taken on a leisurely trip not just into history, but also into the uses and abuses of love, art and knowledge.

Anyone vaguely familiar or who loves the fashions, trends, literature and music of the inter-war years will not be disappointed by Allen’s irreverent, affectionate yet respectful treatment of the period. Part travelogue, part romantic comedy, and part primer to the Lost Generation, Midnight in Paris engages the mind as well as the heart with a scathing and yet affectionate look at our affinity for nostalgia.

讀者回應

搶先發表第一個回應吧!

請先登入再使用此功能。

Social


請選擇新聞及專欄版本

精選個人檔案

Now ALL members can view unlimited profiles!

Languages

View this page in a different language:

讚好

合作夥伴

 ILGA Asia - Fridae partner for LGBT rights in Asia IGLHRC - Fridae Partner for LGBT rights in Asia

Advertisement