Midnight in Paris: Book vs. Movie
Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011) evokes the literary Paris recalled in Ernest Hemingway’s 1964 memoir A Moveable Feast. Its original story follows a visiting screenwriter whose midnight walks take him back to the 1920s.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Ernest Hemingway
- Year
- 1964
- Pages
- 256Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 4 hr 22 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- James Naughton
Ernest Hemingway looks back on his early years in Paris, when he and his first wife Hadley live on limited money while he tries to establish himself as a writer. Cafés, rented rooms, and encounters with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald frame his memories of learning his craft. The recollections return to the pleasures of that life and the friendships and marriage he cannot recover.
- Director
- Woody Allen
- Writer
- Woody Allen
- Year
- 2011
- Runtime
- 1 hr 34 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates
- Genre
- Fantasy, magic realist, romantic comedy, science fiction, time-travel
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
While visiting Paris with his fiancée Inez, screenwriter Gil Pender slips away from their plans and finds himself transported to the 1920s at midnight. Encounters with his literary heroes give him encouragement for the novel he has been struggling to write, while his attraction to Adriana draws him further into their world. Returning each morning, he finds the future he and Inez have arranged less appealing than the past he can visit.
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