This film is quite interesting. Gil, Owen Wilson in his best role yet, is a Woody Allen type writer who is suffering from writing block in the fantasically amazing city of Paris, which he loves. Inez (a nasty role for the usually likeable Rachel McAdams) is his fiance, but she seems uninterested in anything going on in his life. So Gil escapes, he journeys to the 1920s when Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald filled Paris and wrote some of their greatest works. Here many great stars make the real characters great, Alison Pill is amazing as Zelda, Fitzgerald's wife. Kathy Bates, always wonderful, shines as Stein and Adrien Brody provides some relief as Salvador Dali. Marion Cotillard is wonderful as Adrienne, Piscasco's current girlfriend who Gil falls hopelessy in love with, but she doesn't love the 1920s like he does.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Gil's life is coming together and falling apart all at the same time. He finally writes something worthwhile only to learn that Inez is having an affair with someone else. And then Adrienne goes on a journey which Gil cannot follow her on.
This film is quite interesting, considering I don't really like Woody Allen (probably because he married his own daughter, actually his step-daughter but still). Had Woody Allen been younger, he would easily have played the role assigned to Owen Wilson. Grade: B+
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