Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy film from the year 2011 by Woody Allen , who also wrote the screenplay, which he for the 2012 Oscar was awarded. Owen Wilson plays the leading role .
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The successful Hollywood screenwriter Gil Pender and his fiancée Inez accompany their parents on a business trip to Paris . Gil doesn't get along very well with his in-laws. Inez 'father is politically on the right wing of the Republican Party and sympathizes with the Tea Party movement . Gil has little in common with his fiancée either. He is currently working on his first novel, with which he wants to prove that he is able to write something that is more literary than just scripts. Gil is fascinated by Paris and would love to move there after the wedding. With Inez, however, these plans met with little approval. Gil's enthusiasm is primarily for the Paris of the “ Roaring Twenties ”, in which he would have liked to live.
One day the couple happened to meet Inez's former classmate Paul and his wife, with whom Gil and Inez would spend a lot of time from now on. Paul tries to impress the others with his encyclopedic knowledge at every opportunity . Gil is less taken with Paul, who is pseudo-intellectual in his eyes, than his fiancée. So it happens that one evening Gil isolates himself from the group after a wine tasting.
He gets lost on the way to the hotel and, discouraged, takes a seat on a staircase in a quiet side street. Just after the midnight bell, an old-fashioned car stops in front of him and the cheerful passengers invite him to come along. He finds himself at a party where all the guests wear 1920s fashion. The piano player who sings Cole Porter songs looks somehow familiar to Gil, both visually and musically. When a writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces himself to him and says the party is in honor of Jean Cocteau , he initially thinks of a joke until he realizes that he has made a leap in time; he landed in Paris in the 1920s, where he meets Ernest Hemingway , Josephine Baker and the surrealists Salvador Dalí , Man Ray and Luis Buñuel (in a later scene he suggests a plot for a film that is exactly that of Buñuel's film Der Würgeengel from 1962). He can hardly believe his luck and from now on he spends every night with his new friends. As a result, he becomes more and more estranged from Inez.
On the one hand unsettled about his state of mind, on the other hand elated by the nightly excursions, the work on his novel, which he gives Gertrude Stein to read, is becoming increasingly easier. With her he also met the silent Pablo Picasso and above all his lovely lover Adriana, of whom he was immediately taken. Adriana is also nostalgic ; their admiration, however, goes to the turn of the century, the so-called " Belle Époque ". Gil lives in the present by day and in the 1920s by night. When he finds Adriana's diary in an antique shop, he learns that she has fallen in love with him; and he also confesses his love to her at night. After kissing, Gil and Adriana get into a carriage that takes them to the Belle Époque, where they meet Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas at the Moulin Rouge . Adriana is delighted and wants to stay during this time. In conversation with the three gentlemen, it turns out that they too would prefer to live in a bygone era, the Renaissance .
Gil realizes that people long for the past because the present always seems dull and tedious to them. He chooses to accept the present. Inez admits he was flinging with Paul. Gil separates from her, and the next night the walk no longer takes him to the quiet side street from where he started his time travel. Instead, while walking, he meets the attractive antiques seller Gabrielle (from whom he bought an old Cole Porter record the day before) and accompanies her home in the rain.
Soundtrack
| No. | title | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Si tu vois ma mère | Sidney Bechet |
| 2 | Je suis seul ce soir | Swing 41 |
| 3 | Recado | Original Paris Swing |
| 4th | Bistro Fada | Stéphane Wrembel |
| 5 | Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) | Conal Fowkes |
| 6th | You've Got That Thing | Conal Fowkes |
| 7th | La conga blicoti | Josephine Baker |
| 8th | You Do Something to Me | Conal Fowkes |
| 9 | I love Penny Sue | Daniel May |
| 10 | Charleston | Enoch Light & The Charleston City All Stars |
| 11 | Ain't she sweet | Enoch Light & The Charleston City All Stars |
| 12 | Parlez-moi d'amour | Dana Boulé |
| 13 | Barcarole from " Hoffmann's Tales " | Conal Fowkes & Yrving & Lisa Yeras |
| 14th | Cancan from " Orpheus in the Underworld " | Český národní symfonický orchestr |
| 15th | Ballad du Paris | François Parisi |
| 16 | Le parc de plaisir | François Parisi |
background
- The film opened the Cannes International Film Festival on May 11, 2011 , where it was screened out of competition. It was released in theaters in Spain on May 13, 2011, in the United States on June 10, 2011 and in Germany on August 18, 2011.
- The film is the 42nd directorial work by Woody Allen .
synchronization
The synchronization was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke . Sven Hasper directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Gil Pender | Owen Wilson | Philipp Moog |
| Inez | Rachel McAdams | Ranja Bonalana |
| Paul | Michael Sheen | Wolfgang Wagner |
| Carol | Nina Arianda | Tanja Geke |
| Adriana | Marion Cotillard | Elisabeth von Koch |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tom Hiddleston | Matti Klemm |
| Zelda Fitzgerald | Alison Pill | Manja Doering |
| Ernest Hemingway | Corey Stoll | Sascha Rotermund |
| Gertrude Stein | Kathy Bates | Regina Lemnitz |
| Salvador Dalí | Adrien Brody | Simon hunter |
| John, Inez's father | Kurt Fuller | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Helen, Inez's mother | Mimi Kennedy | Karin Buchholz |
| Gabrielle | Léa Seydoux | Celine Fontanges |
| Tourist guide | Carla Bruni | Judith Brandt |
Reviews
“This is how Woody Allen's joke works: He doesn't work with clichés, but plays with them, sending them through the colorful prism of irony. Also with the figure drawing, for which he clearly tamed the misanthropy of his last films. All of his characters could, like the urban neurotic Alvy once, exclaim: 'I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype!' "
“Of course, Woody Allen can be blamed for all the kitsch, which may already be cemented in the American's topos in Paris. After all, right from the start, Paris looks like the pretty faded photos of a transfigured vacation memory. [...] But to knock these clichés around the ears of everyone would be obvious, but also boring and wrong. Quite simply because everyone has their sights set on them precisely because they paint the imagination of many American intellectuals who only know Paris from their travel photos. [...] So why not lean back and relax [...] and enjoy yourself with Hemingway, who is always slightly sweaty. "
“How lovingly and with what ease and serenity it brings everyone together is only admirable. Just like his dealings with the actors: Owen Wilson apparently first had to meet Woody Allen in order to fully show off in his complexity as an actor. No director got so much out of this man. What a magical film! "
“The Woody Allen film has become a product that is easily recognizable due to its consistent corporate identity (always the same typography in opening and closing credits, jazz as film music, constant updating of the cast lists by popular actors) and its reliable periodicity (a new film every year) cleverly balanced between supply scarcity and demand satisfaction. […] The first French adventure in the business balance sheet is entitled Midnight in Paris and is subsidized by French pride through an appearance by the President's wife Carla Bruni as a tour guide at the Musée Rodin . "
"With wit and ease, the tension between escapist desire and reality is playfully resolved by equating fantasy as a space of experience with reality."
Awards and nominations
- Nomination in the Best Picture category for Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
- Nomination for Best Director for Woody Allen
- Award for Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design for Anne Seibel and Hélène Dubreuil
- Nomination for Best Picture, Comedy or Musical for Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
- Nomination for Best Director for Woody Allen
- Award for Best Screenplay for Woody Allen
- Nomination for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical for Owen Wilson
British Academy Film Awards 2012
- Nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2012
- Nomination in the Best Picture category for Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
- Nomination for Best Comedy for Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
- Award for Best Screenplay for Woody Allen
- Nomination in the Best Picture category for Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum
- Nomination for Best Director for Woody Allen
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Rachel McAdams
Directors Guild of America Award 2012
- Nomination for Best Director for Woody Allen
Writers Guild of America Award 2012
- Award for Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2012
- Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble for Michael Sheen , Marion Cotillard , Adrien Brody , Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates , Carla Bruni and Rachel McAdams
Web links
- Midnight in Paris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Woody-Allen about Midnight in Paris
- Interview with Woody-Allen about Midnight in Paris In: Focus , August 13, 2011
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Midnight in Paris . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 714 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Midnight in Paris . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ German dubbing index: Midnight in Paris. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
- ^ Film review Poesie des Mirakels
- ↑ Film review on par with the avant-garde
- ↑ Anke Westphal: It couldn't be better . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 12, 2011; Movie review
- ^ Film review The new Woody Allen film
- ↑ Midnight in Paris. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 23, 2012 .