I hesitated on choosing this movie, but fell in love within 10 minutes. MIP captures Paris in all it's beauty and reignites the francophile inside of me. I've always wanted to visit Paris, especially after seeing springtime pictures.
The movie is about a young writer who is spending some vacation time in Paris with his fiance and her parents. There they meet up with an old friend of his fiance (the man is a complete douche _ pretentious and pedantic). Gil (played excellently by Owen Wilson) has a deep fascination with 1920s Paris, and I don't blame him. After a wine tasting, gil decides to take a stroll, on a rest he is invited into a vintage peugeot (which is GORGEOUS) and begins the adventure of his lifetime.
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I won't share much more of the plot but it's the underlying lesson it shares that grabbed me. I am guilty of lingering on past eras, for me the nineties were the best in terms of music. And if you look at the YouTube comments under any song from the 90s, 80s or 20s, you'll find that I am not alone. Everyone speaks of a golden era, a 'belle epoque'. It's the place we escape to when the present time becomes too unbearable. It symbolizes a time of freedom, creativity and ease. The memories provide comfort. What Gil learned tho' is that every era, every generation has it's golden era. And that we cannot retreat to the past to escape the immediate. We can achieve our hopes and dreams right now, and we have at our disposal all that is needed to succeed.
I recommend this movie for its beauty, its story and its ability to provoke deep thought ... also there are so many quotable moments, especially from the lips of 'Ernest Hemingway' and 'Gertrude Stein'.
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