Midnight in Paris movie by Woodie Allen

Lovers of Paris will enjoy this movie from the beginning when so many tourist attractions dominate the opening scenes. I will watch the opening shots if nothing else, because they are truly magnificent. The plot is thin and weak, but it does make one wish that one could have this kind of experience meeting with many of the famous artists and writers who occupied Paris for one reason or another years ago. Paris has a rich history of the elite making it the background for many of their creations, and Allen exploits those famous personalitiies to the hilt in this strangely veiled flick, not quite romance or comedy. I remember Woodie Allen for his having been a comedian years ago when he appeared regularly as a guest on the Tonight Show. The marriage of the two main players is threatened when they travel to Paris to have the young woman's parents who are staid and conservative Republicans drop in to determine if this young hack scriptwriter is man enough for their daughter. Dad has to hire a private detective to follow him when he mysteriously disappears at night in hunt of adventure and excitement. He has written a novel about nostalgia shops that takes him on a strange journey of creative nostalgia to times past meeting with illustrious names in the world of literature, music, and art. Not only does he meet with Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter, but also Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Toulouse Lautrec, all in one single piece of celluloid! Fancy that! So if your dream is to meet face to face with Ernest Hemingway, drop everything, for Allen's version of the handsome young journalist is only one of the marvelously presented famous expatriates who found their way to Paris. Highly recommended for the beauty of seeing Paris in the rain....