#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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