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Vacationing in Paris with his fiancee, screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender has taken to touring the city alone. But then the nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.
23 December 1967, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
24 November 1983, Drummondville, Québec, Canada
16 September 1953, San Francisco, California, USA
25 September 1948, Rochester, New York, USA
11 February 1981, Kigali, Rwanda
22 September 1973, France
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1 July 1985, Paris, France
September 23, 1979 in Paris, France
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1968, Dallas, Texas, USA
30 September 1975, Paris, France
August 10, 1981 in Egypt
1 April 1968, Albi, Tarn, France
9 February 1981, Westminster, London, England, UK
5 February 1969, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
19 April 1971, Casablanca, Morocco
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
June 16, 2016
... Allen brings his fantasy to life with such affection and joy that he transports us into his dream come true as a shared fantasy.June 10, 2011
Midnight in Paris is a loving embrace of the city, of art and of life itself.June 03, 2011
Our hero has found his groove among the Lost Generation and, for us, there's some amusement to be had in sharing Gil's thrills -- it's like stepping into a Classic Comics version of A Moveable Feast.October 05, 2011
It's fun and it's most welcome.June 03, 2011
Midnight in Paris is charming and clever, at times wickedly astute and hopeful.June 01, 2014
I continue to be utterly taken with Midnight in Paris.August 03, 2013
It's charming and smart, and riddled with little joys.May 03, 2015
Breezy and casually profound, with a killer gimmick that keeps on giving.October 07, 2015
Mr. Allen's habitual romanticizing of the wealthy has grown stale and is especially problematic in this recession.August 03, 2013
It's attractive and easy to slip into, but [Allen] didn't put enough thought into the design, and it soon falls apart.June 10, 2011
"Midnight in Paris" is a bonbon to ease the craving for Allen's earlier, funnier films.June 03, 2011
There is breezy comedy to be made of a YouTube-age writer meeting the icons and idols of a bygone, classical era, but Allen goes deeper, expanding on his time-travel device to make unexpected and unexpectedly generous observations.