Almost forgot that I watched "Midnight in Paris" yesterday too, with Connor.

It's a really fun film; go watch it if you'd like to see something a little offbeat, a little quirky. :) I'd really like to get the DVD for this when it's released. It might not be a timeless classic, but it is - very much like Paris after midnight in the film - a little dose of something "magical". :)

It's best enjoyed if you know (no, I don't mean personally) a few early-twentieth authors and artists who lived in Paris during their careers, because at least that means you won't be completely lost. The film relies quite a bit on the assumption that the famous names that Woody Allen makes use of are famous enough to not require any introduction.

Being able to understand a little French is handy too. Not everything in French is translated in the film, and sometimes even if it is, some things are just lost in translation, y'know? It doesn't have its original feeling or humour.

But all in all, a most enjoyable film - I love the way that Hemingway is unapologetically straightforward and mutinous; I love how the Fitzgeralds are so full of colour and Dali, thanks to that moustache, he barely has to do anything before you feel like laughing. And his obsession with rhinoceroses kept making me think of Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros". Haha. :)