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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris

Soderbergh might be fed up of the movie a year pace, but then you have someone like Woody who keeps churning them out. Benefitting from a vast ensemble cast and an ideal backdrop for matters of the heart, this might be Allen’s coup de grace of his Euro-set batch of films. I certainly like the log-line.

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#82. Midnight in Paris

Director/Writer: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures and Stephen Tenenbaum
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

The Gist: This follows a family travelling to the city for business. The party includes a young engaged couple that has their lives transformed throughout the journey. The film celebrates a young man’s great love for Paris, and simultaneously explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better.….(more)

Cast: Michael Sheen, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Alison Pill, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Tom Hiddleston, Léa Seydoux, Kurt Fuller, Corey Stoll, Mimi Kennedy, Gad Elmaleh and Carla Bruni

List Worthy Reasons…Soderbergh might be fed up of the movie a year pace, but then you have someone like Woody who keeps churning them out. Benefitting from a vast ensemble cast and an ideal backdrop for matters of the heart, this might be Allen’s coup de grace of his Euro-set batch of films. I certainly like the log-line.

Release Date/Status?: Update: Sony Pictures Classics just picked this up… so we can expect the most logical first destination for the film to be Cannes because of the Woody-Paris-Croisette connection and this should follow the same path as his last film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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