Country: Spain, USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 94'
A young couple of Americans, Gil and Inez, are on a trip to Paris with the parents of the girl, John and Helen. For John it’s a business trip. For Gil, a scriptwriter who’s fed up with Hollywood life, this trip is an opportunity to find some inspiration for his first novel. His girlfriend, though, tries to discourage him, believing a career as screenwriter would much more profitable. Gil had lived in the French capital for some time when he was young and soon the charm of the city captures him once again: conquered by the Parisian night, the scriptwriter finds himself living in the 1920s, meeting his most beloved writers and artists of the times. “I get great enjoyment out of presenting Paris to the cinema audience the way I see it. Just as with New York, where I present it one way, and other directors present it other ways, somebody else could come and shoot Paris in a completely different way. I want to present it my way, projecting my own feelings about it.”
Biography
film director
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (New York, NY, USA, 1935) began his career as author of TV shows and doing comedy. In 1966 he debuted as director of What’s Up, Tiger Lily?. Eventually he achieved great success with his theater comedy Play It Again, Sam, brought to screen by Herbert Ross in 1972. After that he directed over forty movies, among the others Take the Money and Run, Annie Hall, awarded with four Academy Awards, Manhattan, Zelig, Hanna and Her Sisters, Deconstructing Harry, Midnight in Paris, awarded with the Academy Award for best writing in 2012, and Blue Jasmine, worthed an Oscar as best actress to Cate Blanchett.
FILMOGRAFIA
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (Che fai, rubi?, 1966), Take the Money and Run (Prendi i soldi e scappa, 1969), Love and Death (Amore e guerra, 1975), Annie Hall (Io e Annie, 1977), Manhattan (id., 1979), Zelig (id., 1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (Hannah e le sue sorelle, 1986), Radio Days (id., 1987), Crimes and Misdemeanors (Crimini e misfatti, 1989), Deconstructing Harry (Harry a pezzi, 1997), Sweet and Lowdown (Accordi e disaccordi, 1999), Match Point (id., 2005), Whatever Works (Basta che funzioni, 2009), Midnight in Paris (id., 2011), To Rome with Love (id., 2012), Blue Jasmine (id., 2013), Magic in the Moonlight (id., 2014), Cafè Society (id., 2016).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Woody Allen
fotografia/cinematography
Darius Khondji
montaggio/film editing
Alisa Lepselter
scenografia/production design
Anne Seibel
costumi/costume design
Sonia Grande
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Owen Wilson (Gil), Rachel McAdams (Inez), Marion Cotillard (Adriana), Kathy Bates (Gertrude Stein), Adrien Brody (Salvador Dalí), Michael Sheen (Paul), Nina Arianda (Carol), Carla Bruni (la guida del museo/Museum Guide), Kurt Fuller (John), Tom Hiddleston (Francis Scott Fitzgerald), Mimi Kennedy (Helen), Léa Seydoux (Gabrielle)
produttori/producers
Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Jaume Roures
produzione/production
Mediapro, Versátil Cinema & Gravier Production, Pontchartrain
coproduttori/coproducers
Helen Robin, Raphaël Benoliel
distribuzione/distribution
Medusa
vendita all’estero/world sales
Sony Pictures Classics
