That's not hard to imagine for anyone who has spent time in the City of Light, and Woody Allen's new film, Midnight in Paris, shows a "Paris, golden and gray, breezy and melancholy, immune to its own abundant clichés"
In the concluding paragraph of The New York Times movie review by A.O. Scott
"Mr. Allen has often said that he does not want or expect his own work to survive, but as modest and lighthearted as “Midnight in Paris” is, it suggests otherwise: Not an ambition toward immortality so much as a willingness to leave something behind — a bit of memorabilia, or art, if you like that word better — that catches the attention and solicits the admiration of lonely wanderers in some future time. Ah, did you once see Woody plain? How strange it seems, and new"
see The Old Ennui and the Lost Generation
FABULOUS film, brilliant as only Woody Allen can be. Woody's talent will endure long after all who have enjoyed the genre of his films have left the scene. I suspect an entire college film class could be devoted to the study of Woody Allen's works.
ReplyDeleteWoody brings a flavor to his films that is unique to him and yet brings with it something that touches all of us and that is trying to understand the human condition, its dilemmas, its heartaches, its joys and its triumphs. Thank you Mr. Allen for providing the inhabitants of THIS era hours of interesting films.
Which era would I want to return? I always say the late 60's but "Midnight in Paris" warns us each era has its problems. Maybe the era in which we do live is the best era of all.