Characteristically, the road movie is a catharsis played out on the big screen. Mounting frustrations of quotidian, pedestrian existences crescendo into a need to break away from all that is familiar. At the same time, the road movie is a contradiction as characters escape the familiar by utilizing the uber-familiar and search for the unknown by means […]
In what might be his best film since 1997’s Sweet and Lowdown, Woody Allen sheds the jittery paranoia, forced love affair, and overly-convoluted script that were staples in the 90’s by giving us Midnight in Paris, an exploration of our relationship with and admiration of nostalgia. In present-day Paris, our protagonist Gil Pender (Owen Wilson) is on vacation […]