Cole Porter's Let's Fall In Love

After a long day cycling (followed by a healthy nap) we went to see Woody Allen's latest film, Midnight in Paris. I loved his earlier movies but had really grown bored with his work in the last few decades. Vicki Cristini Barcelona was full of eye candy but the script was what one expects from a soap opera. I gave up on Woody Allen and thought that he was going to finish his career with boring and predictable movies like that.

Last week my cycling partner raved about Midnight in Paris so we thought that we'd give it a shot. The place was packed and it's playing at three theaters within a two block radius. Great film and lots of fun. I'm especially interested in the 1920s and we're in a neighborhood where a lot of the characters from the film lived. Gertrud Stein's flat was a stone's throw from here, Hemingway met Fitzgerald a few doors down, Man Ray's famous Le Violon d'Ingres was done across the street when he was living in a cheap boarding house (he later had a studio nearby), Gauguin lived in another cheap rooming house down the road, every old bar states that "Hemingway drank here", and Tolstoy and Kandinsky used to hang out with other Russians at the nearby Rotonde cafe.

Besides a fun script there's also a lot of eye candy the way Vicki Cristina Barcelona had. There was a quick glimpse of the Polidor restaurant which brought back great memories of the first time I met Jojo. We met there for a dinner with a common friend though didn't know each other, yet. There are a lot of Montmartre shots though in the 1920's that area was becoming very expensive for poor artists who had mostly been moving down to Montparnasse because it was the cheap district. Either way, really a fun movie.