“Midnight In Paris” is a wonderful movie with a touch of fantasy almost like a combination of “Lost In Translation” and “Groundhog Day”. The movie was directed with real elegance and charm by the great Woody Allen (“Annie Hall”, “Blue Jasmine”) in what is clearly one of his finest films.

A nostalgic screenwriter and wannabe novelist by the name of Gil (Owen Wilson “Cars”, “Zoolander”) is on holiday with his fiancée (Rachel McAdams “Red Eye”) and her parents in Paris. At midnight, every night, he gets inside an old-fashioned car and finds himself swept into the 1920s where he meets many of his artistic and cultural idols.

I’m not really much of a fan of Owen Wilson’s work but I think the material here is so good that he didn’t irritate me as much as he usually does. Rachel McAdams was fine as Inez and I like Kurt Fuller (“Ghostbusters 2”) as her father. We get to see F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston “Thor”), Salvador Dali (Adrien Brody “The Pianist”), Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll “Non-Stop”) and many others and they’re all great and help create the fantastic 20s look and feel. I like Michael Sheen (“Underworld”), who basically serves as Gil’s rival as they try to outsmart one another when discussing art. Also, keep an eye out for Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni.

This is a beautiful movie about a man’s love of the culture and history of one of the world’s greatest cities. Movies like this take you to a place that maybe of fantasy but never seems too far from reality and that’s what makes it so special. If you’re a fan of Woody Allen or any of the great artists of the 20s then this is definitely worth checking out but I imagine the movie is charming enough to entertain the masses.