While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.
Writer/Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/
Unexplained time travel allows the writer (Allen alter-ego OW) to gain the not-so-deep insight that life is unsatisfying, therefore (some) people always romanticize some past period as "better".
I was attracted by the poster. Ironically, the equivalent scene in the film, without the Van Gogh sky, is lit/tinted in unnatural yellow, which would not have attracted me.
I was also attracted by the Soundtrack. WA usually uses a lot of jazz that I like. Here he was faithful to the 20s, where the music was slower, sappier, and not to my taste. He managed to find/commission a version of Offenbach's Barcarole that is downright awful, and I really like that melody.
But the story was ok.
Rated 7.7 (350,908)
distr. Sony, dir. Allen; 6
