Performance

Midnight in Paris

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Woody Allen’s *Midnight in Paris* (2011) follows a Hollywood screenwriter on a trip to Paris who, night after night, slips into the city’s 1920s artistic milieu and is forced to reassess his present-day ambitions and his strained engagement. The film uses time travel less as spectacle than as a way to test nostalgia against lived reality, with gentle, pointed irony. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival; in New York, it played as part of the city’s ongoing conversation with European modernism and the cult of the “golden age” in art.