Midnight in Paris

Director: Woody Allen

2011 / 94min / VHS

Screenwriter, would-be novelist, and romantic-at-heart Owen Wilson, on vacation in the City of Lights with level-headed fiancée Rachel McAdams, sets out on his own one night after a wine tasting and finds himself suddenly in the Jazz Age Paris of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Dali and Picasso—an invigorating draught of bohemian freedom that sets our protagonist to seriously interrogating his life choices. “We talked about pushing the color even more in the period scenes, in order to distinguish them from the present-day ones. The Paris of today would be normal and generic, bland and desaturated, and when you entered the Paris of the 1920s the colors would be more warm, lush and flamboyant, with lots of brown and gold and red.” —Darius Khondji

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Part of Radical Chiaroscuro: The Work of Darius Khondji