I did read that it is the biggest Woody Allen hit in the United States in the last 25 years.

I saw the movie in the US, and of course, mainly in English. But there was some dialogue in the movie solely in French, there weren't any subtitles. Mainly by the old time characters, Kathy Bates, for example, said things in French that weren't translated, as did some other characters.

I don't know if there are two versions, but in the theater I saw, a lot of it had no subtitles when in French.

There were parts where a character spoke French and then another character would say in English the gist of what was said. That was the version I saw in the states.

I do remember that they sometimes did that, but since I understood the French I wasn't paying that much attention to what they would paraphrase back (and sometimes I think they didn't do that and sometimes it wasn't totally accurate), but it definitely wasn't subtitled in English all the time. I think Nottingham may have forgotten that there was French in it that wasn't subtitled if you saw the English language version. I know a friend of mine in Florida said the same thing to me (that she couldn't understand the French at times) and she lives in a smaller city so I imagine there was only one version released in the US.

When this sort of thing is done in a movie, it is generally to underline the fact that the main character has no idea what the people are saying either.

To clarify what I said....I saw the movie when it came out in PARIS......FRENCH subtitles for
the FRENCH audience....as the movie was,of course, in ENGLISH.
Then, when we came back to the USA, we saw it again......of course, in ENGLISH.
It was fun to see it again and NOT be distracted by the subtitles. Kerouac explains it all very well.

We're lucky enough to spend our 9th retirement summer in Paris. My French is getting better but, while I can get drunk and fat in French, the spoken word continues to elude me. We often go to the English language cinema but they seem to think that anyone in Paris speaks French well enough to not require subtitles for the French dialog. We missed a lot of the DaVinci Code because of this but, when in Rome (or Paris)... Just one more incentive to improve language skills. BTW, we LOVED the movie. I just finished looking up the scenes and tomorrow we're going to crawl the Left Bank to find the Eglise St Etienne du Mont.

Loved it! Soooo glad I have trip planned or I would really be dying!! The beginning sequence was worth the ticket price for me. I bet tourism benefits from the movie, as if Paris isn't already a top destination.

Before our last trip, I read A Movable Feast, a Coco Chanel biography and a few other Paris related books that reference the author/artist community in Paris, so it was fun to see it all come to "life"

We went to see this the other night. What a really fun picture. My husband kept whispering in my ear: We know that place....and that one..."

Enjoyed all the characters. Must have been fun to make :-)

Midnight in Paris is in select theaters for a very short time so we're off to see this again for the umpteenth time before our upcoming Paris getaway!

Here is the website to see if it is showing in your city:

www.sonyclassics.com/midnightinparis/dates.html

Just caught up with this tread again. I have seen MIDNIGHT IN PARIS twice - had to really check out the locations second time around.


Keroauc, thanks for the link - tried to read the description en francais...

Midnight in Paris will be out on DVD Tuesday, December 20th. I haven't seen it yet (never came to my small town), but instead of renting it, I may buy it so I can get my fix whenever I'm feeling lonesome for Paris, which is frequently!

It's out on DVD sometime this month.

You've all got me excited about the movie, I'm going to see it. What makes it better is that it adds to the fun part of preparing my trip next May to France and Italy. These Fodorite forums are only a recent but oh so wonderful discovery. It brightens up my day at the boring office.

Just returned from Paris in Oct. and saw the movie on the plane on the way over. It really prepared me for the city. I know how you feel about Paris as I feel the same way. This was my 2nd trip to the city and loved it even more this time than the 1st trip. I hope you get to go soon.

I finally got to see it, just finished watching it on Pay for View on TV. Oh my, I really really enjoyed this movie. This might be a spoiler for those who haven't seen it yet so don't read further if you don't wish to:









Who doesn't dream of time travel? Loved it. And we even got the Can Can - and the scene with the detective at Versailles! So much fun.

Oh..I thought I was in the Lounge. Oops. I did a search for "Midnight in Paris" and ended up here and posted.

"Midnight in Paris" is a fine travelogue for the city. But the movie itself is a big disappointment. Owen Wilson was dull (no surprise there), Rachel McAdams was a shrew (I'd long to live in another era too if she were my fiancee), the screenplay was surprisingly flat (a few mild chuckles, nothing more), and the score (that incessant guitar number throughout the film) was monotonous. The traffic jam of 1920s Paris cultural icons was amusing for a time (Gee, who will pop up next?) and kept me hoping for something more until I realized that the rush of cameos was finally the film's thin, sustaining thread. Ultimately, "Midnight in Paris" is a loving snapshot of Paris 2010 (Hence, more box office receipts for Woody than usual) and golden historical artifact for future generations, but a trifle as a movie. Compare it to an earlier Allen film that played magically with time sequences, "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and you'll see how lazy and uninspired "Midnight in Paris" is.