Midnight in Paris

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I am officially eleven minutes into this movie, and I am really enjoying it. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen. I absolutely adore Michael Sheen, who also did a brief stint on 30 Rock - it's fun to see him do an American accent. I don't really enjoy Owen Wilson - I think he's self-indulgent and probably a total jerk in real life, but he has good comedic timing. And even though I want to hate him, the character they want us to hate is Michael Sheen, an obnoxious know-it-all who even argues with a tour guide because he knows best. Hilarious.

Anyway, it's painfully clear that this is a Woody Allen film, because they are all eerily similar with that campy-independent-movie music. I am usually not a fan, but the script is usually funny and very true to real life. Anyway, Owen Wilson is a writer from California who goes on vacation to France with his fiance. He's writing a book about France in the 1920s and mysteriously is transported to... France in the 1920s and meets the Fitzgeralds (Scott and Zelda) and Hemingway, etc. Definitely interesting and a fun take on comedy. Wilson continuously goes in and out of the 20s and present day.

It gets even more hilarious when Wilson can then interpret art and everything in France better than Sheen because he has been spending time in the 1920s. Overall, it's a good film - pretty on par with Woody Allen's stuff. Nothing I would watch again, but I enjoyed it. The casting was definitely good - Owen Wilson pulled this role off very well. Midnight in Paris is up for Best Comedy, Best Actor (Owen Wilson), Best Director (Woody Allen), and Best Screenplay. I think this film has the edge over The Ides of March as far as screenplay, but I'm not sure about the other categories yet. The problem is now that I will definitely not have time to see all of the nominated films before the Golden Globes - hopefully by the time the Oscars come around, but I'm always behind.

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