Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
Director: Woody Allen
Are you one of these people who loves the past and wish you were in the past? Then this movie is for you.
Director Woody Allen still has it in him. This movie is about a Hollywood screenwriter, Owen Wilson vacationing in Paris with his fiancee Rachel McAdams. He loves Paris and wants to settle down but his fiancee opposes the idea.
He also struggles to finish a novel which his fiancee doesn's support and asks him to instead focus on scrrenwriting for Hollywood. One night, being drunk, he gets lost in the streets of Paris and gets picked by bunch of people in a old horse carriage. To his surprise, he finds that he has been transported back to Paris of 1920s, his favorite era. He gets to meet the famous novel writers of that time and exchanges his novel for their feedback. The next morning he finds himself back to the present. To make sure that it was not a dream, he goes to the same place once again during midnight and .. gets picked up once again and back to the 1920s.
The rest of the movie is about whether he wants to stay in the past or lead his present life.
The most interesting thing about this movie is that, though i dont know the famous authors of the 1920s, i got equally excited. Owen Wilson really acted well that we get to see the Paris of Old from his point of view.
Ah! the ever-pulling allure of nostalgia. This is a beautifully directed movie in the ever romantic Paris. Give it a try, it won't disappoint the literate in you. And what are you going to loose? meeting the roguish yet charming Ernest Hemingway?!
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