Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen’s love letter to the writer. Woody’s films have always been divisive (warning: I’m in the love his movies camp), but regardless of one’s feelings, if a person loves literature or considers themselves a writer, I cannot imagine them not loving this film.

The film follows a screenwriter (Owen Wilson) turned novelist during a trip to Paris with his fiancée (Rachel McAdams), who one night drunkenly discovers during a midnight wandering of the city that every night at midnight he can travel back to his ideal time period - the 1920s.

The writer protagonist soon meets and becomes intertwined with many famous figures of the era, including F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein, Juan Belmonte, Salvador Dalí, Cole Porter, and T.S. Eliot. It’s a plot so absurd that only Woody Allen could pull it off - and he does. And the more you know and appreciate the characters portrayed in the film, the better and more amusing, I imagine, you will find the film.

If you love the time period, if you love literature or art, if you’re a fan of Woody Allen, do yourself a favor and see this fantastic film.