The Mikado
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« Reply #50 on: June 05, 2011, 10:35:11 PM » |
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Midnight in Paris.
After being somewhat disappointed with Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Midnight in Paris is the best movie I've seen in years. It helps that I'm deeply familiar with the subject material and deeply emphasize with Owen Wilson's character (I wouldn't mind spending my evenings in 1920s Paris with the expat crowd: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Cole and Linda Porter, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali...). It's a pretty blatant shot at people like me and the Golden Age fallacy: I love the past because I despise the present, I suppose, and Allen does a good job at showing what an idiot I am for that.
I love Woody Allen and I'll religiously go see even his lesser films, so after seeing what I feel will probably end up being his best movie of the 2010s I am just in awe.
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