Filmography
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the_lady_lilyDrop The Dead Donkey, Series 4
Not a great deal to do here except note this; it's still making me laugh, they're still finding ways to make the characters grow that aren't just repeating the same old note every time, it's still amusingly topical if you can remember the history. It won't surprise you to know that I intend to carry on with the next series!
Midnight in Paris
Oh, what a beautiful, lyrical film. It is a lovesong to the city of Paris, its history and its literary and artistic culture. It has also totally redeemed Owen Wilson for me as an actor. The plot follows Gil, a modern-day American screen-writer in Paris with his fiancée and her parents; despite having a successful career in Hollywood writing what sounds like pretty dire films (perhaps like the ones that Owen is best known for acting in?), he wants to be taken seriously as a novelist and is working hard on his first draft. Through an unexplained time slip (and I prefer the fact it remains unexplained), he finds himself back in the age of Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds and Ernest Hemingway. He not only gets a writing critique from Stein, but also falls sort-of in love with one of the women he meets, although eventually she also experiences the time slip and decides to stay where she is taken back to. Gil reevaluates his life and realises his fiancée is, erm, not the right one for him. Oddly. And that he is going to stay in Paris. This is an entirely reductive idea of the plot, but there's far more going on here - it's stuffed full of literary jokes and knowledge that reflect a strong familiarity with the period, the costumes are divine, and I think this may be my favourite Woody Allen film ever.
Also, Adrian Brody as Dali. Inspired.
Not a great deal to do here except note this; it's still making me laugh, they're still finding ways to make the characters grow that aren't just repeating the same old note every time, it's still amusingly topical if you can remember the history. It won't surprise you to know that I intend to carry on with the next series!
Midnight in Paris
Oh, what a beautiful, lyrical film. It is a lovesong to the city of Paris, its history and its literary and artistic culture. It has also totally redeemed Owen Wilson for me as an actor. The plot follows Gil, a modern-day American screen-writer in Paris with his fiancée and her parents; despite having a successful career in Hollywood writing what sounds like pretty dire films (perhaps like the ones that Owen is best known for acting in?), he wants to be taken seriously as a novelist and is working hard on his first draft. Through an unexplained time slip (and I prefer the fact it remains unexplained), he finds himself back in the age of Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgeralds and Ernest Hemingway. He not only gets a writing critique from Stein, but also falls sort-of in love with one of the women he meets, although eventually she also experiences the time slip and decides to stay where she is taken back to. Gil reevaluates his life and realises his fiancée is, erm, not the right one for him. Oddly. And that he is going to stay in Paris. This is an entirely reductive idea of the plot, but there's far more going on here - it's stuffed full of literary jokes and knowledge that reflect a strong familiarity with the period, the costumes are divine, and I think this may be my favourite Woody Allen film ever.
Also, Adrian Brody as Dali. Inspired.
