If you don't know where to travel this summer, maybe the next movie will offer you a glimpse of inspiration.

"Midnight in Paris" is Woody Allen's 41 movie, and the film which opened the Cannes movie festival this year, on May 11. Even if it is well known that Woody Allen's movie don't appeal to everyone and have a specific target group, "Midnight in Paris" has succeeded to attract in movie theaters all types of viewers and to be a real box office hit. (I'm pretty sure that Mr. Allen won't like the "box office hit" remark).

But let's see what's the story about:

Directed and written by Mr. Allen himself, "Midnight in Paris" is a romantic comedy built around Gil (played by Owen Wilson), an American screenwriter/novelist who has lost his inspiration and who comes to Paris together with his fiancee Inez (Rachel MacAdams) to accompany his future in laws on a business trip. That's not all, because if it would have been that simple it wouldn't have been written by Mr. Allen.

A romantic and a believer that the 1920 were the golden age, Gil falls in love with Paris and wants to move here after he and Inez are married. His fiancee doesn't share his romantic views upon the city, and Gil is left to wander the city alone in the evening. At midnight, a vintage cab transports Gil in the past, more exactly in the 1920 Paris. There, he'll meet all his idols: Hemingway, Picasso, Dali, (Adrien Brody), Scott and Zelda Firzgerald (Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill) and Gertrude Stein (played by Kathy Bates). The spell is broken when day comes, and Gill has to leave this world of fascination and enchantment and to return back in contemporary.

Trapped in present with his fiancee and her annoying pal – Michael Sheen, Gil yearns to return in the past. Once again at midnight he'll be transported by the same cab in the Jazz Age where he'll get to know Picasso's muse and model Adriana, played by the mesmerizing Marianne Cotillard, and he'll even have his manuscripts read by Gertrude Stein. The rich, yet funny dialogs that Gil has with the world's famous artists transport the entire audience in a world of dream that you wish it was real.

Gil's adventures in the past don't end here, together with Cotillard he'll get to visit Paris in the 1890s. The freedom and excitement of the city seem to make him (and us, the viewers) want to stay in that world forever. Of course that eventually he'll have to get back to the contemporary (for a second I wanted to write "real world") and to face his life, and find a solution to his unhappiness.

"Midnight in Paris" is a charming yet witty movie who succeeds to engross the viewers for 120 minutes and even more, and to make you want to visit or re-visit Paris. Although it was surprising to see Owen Wilson in a Woody Allen film, the results are almost spectacular, and at the end of the movie you'll not remember Wilson as Hansel from "Zoolander", but as Gil – a romantic, always in love with Paris.

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