Updated through 5/12."Film festival opening night films are famously cursed objects," writes Scott Foundas for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, "less often chosen for their artistic merits than for their ability to placate — or at least not offend — the opening-night constituency of politicians, bureaucrats and important benefactors who rarely resurface over the ensuing days, thereby allowing the festival to get on with the business of being a festival. Some other times, the film in question is simply the only one that was willing to pick up the tab for the opening night party. But if such curses exist to be broken, then Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which tonight opens the 64th Cannes Film Festival, is the enchanted object that lifts the spell." It is, he argues, "one of his masterpieces — a movie about the romantic pull of yesteryear that ends up, most unexpectedly and movingly, as an eloquent defense of today.
- 5/12/2011
- MUBI
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