Despite not yet having a U.K. release date, the cast and crew of Midnight in Paris have been doing their best to promote the movie at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it opened the 64th annual ceremony.
Director Woody Allen and star Owen Wilson spoke to Jonathan Ross about the film, Allen’s latest ode to the French capital. Asked about his recent European distraction, Allen spoke of the “lift” that each new city brings to his filmmaking, following a previous obsession with New York, while Wilson told of his dislike of watching his own movies alongside general audiences, something he had to endure at this year’s festival. Michael Sheen meanwhile, discusses the warm reception the film received at Cannes, as well as his director’s dismissal of subtext.
Midnight in Paris focusses on the aspirations of Owen Wilson’s reluctant screenwriter, Gil, to become a respected novelist. In Paris with his fiancée and her disapproving parents, Gil’s obsessive glorification of the past – namely, 1920s France – puts increasing strain on their relationship, unaided by an encounter with Michael Sheen’s know-it-all lecturer. With a narrative twist up his sleeve, however, Allen doesn’t quite deliver the movie you’re probably expecting.
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You can ready our review of Midnight in Paris here, a four star rating with which I agree emphatically. Should the film find itself a U.K. distributor, you will likely hear so here first.
