Midnight in Paris is a genuinely fresh movie by Woody Allen, I would say, for us who craving for more surrealism and fantasy movies and this movie is one of them, premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Well long-story-short, the movie is about a guy named Gil (Owen Wilson), a Hollywood screenwriter having a vacation in Paris with his fiancee Inez (Rachel McAdams) and her parents. At one night Gil walks alone through the street of Paris and eventually becoming lost. Then, a vintage car stops in front of him with a group with 1920s style ask him to join them. He realises that he’s ‘traveling’ to 1920s, an era which he adores and believes that was the ‘golden age’.

The meetings with Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald and leads to Hemmingway, Pablo Picasso and his mistress Adriana (which then Gil fell in love with) and Gertrude Stein help much in his novel and eventually life. There’s also small appearance of Adrien Brody, which then reminds me of how amazing Wilson and Brody in The Darjeeling Limited. Not to forget Carla Bruni, she’s so pretty with her French-accented-English. So this movie is really enjoyable, with the yellowish-orangey tone of the movie it looks pretty vintage and also it’s Paris. And Paris in the 1920s? Come on!

Decisions making and our own idealism. Now what would you do if you could travel back to the era where you think that era was the ‘golden age’? Would you stay or would you choose the present? :)