Sunthing Special

My husband and I drove up to Chagrin Falls the other night to see “Midnight in Paris” as it was no longer in the Akron area. I’m so glad we saw it on the big screen before it disappeared! If you haven’t heard of it, I hate to say it’s a Woody Allen movie, because that will immediately turn off most people. But he himself is not in it, so don’t worry. But some of Allen’s old magic is – in the casting, the storyline and the dialogue. Basically, while in Paris, the character played by Owen Wilson travels back in time to the 1920s every night at midnight. He meets people like Picasso, Hemingway and many now-legendary writers and artists who help get him on the right track. The way these characters are portrayed is so fun, especially when the actor is unrecognizable so for a while you could actually believe he or she was that person (a glaring exception was Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein — it felt like Kathy Bates was with Picasso and how could Kathy Bates have Picasso over?). But what surprised me the most was how much my husband liked it. He really, really liked it. I’d see it again just to get lost in Paris for an hour and a half.