Midnight in Paris
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Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The movie explores themes of nostalgia and modernism.
Produced by Spanish group Mediapro and Allen's Gravier Productions, the film stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni, Adrien Brody and Michael Sheen. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was released in North America in May 2011. The film opened to widespread critical acclaim and has commonly been cited as Woody Allen's best film since 1994's Bullets Over Broadway. It has become a global box office success.
Cast
The cast includes (in credits order):
- Owen Wilson as Gil Pender
- Rachel McAdams as Inez
- Kurt Fuller as John, Inez's father
- Mimi Kennedy as Helen, Inez's mother
- Michael Sheen as Paul Bates
- Nina Arianda as Carol Bates
- Carla Bruni as Museum Guide
- Yves Heck as Cole Porter
- Alison Pill as Zelda Fitzgerald
- Tom Hiddleston as F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway
- Sonia Rolland as Josephine Baker
- Daniel Lundh as Juan Belmonte
- Thérèse Bourou-Rubinsztein as Alice B. Toklas
- Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein
- Marcial Di Fonzo Bo as Pablo Picasso
- Marion Cotillard as Adriana
- Léa Seydoux as Gabrielle
- Emmanuelle Uzan as Djuna Barnes
- Adrien Brody as Salvador Dalí
- Tom Cordier as Man Ray
- Adrien de Van as Luis Buñuel
- Serge Bagdassarian as Detective Duluc
- Gad Elmaleh as Detective Tisserant
- David Lowe as T. S. Eliot
- Yves-Antoine Spoto as Henri Matisse
- Laurent Claret as Leo Stein
- Vincent Menjou Cortes as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Olivier Rabourdin as Paul Gauguin
- François Rostain as Edgar Degas
- Karine Vanasse as Belle Époque woman
- Michel Vuillermoz as King in Versailles
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