Feb
19
Midnight in Paris – a delight
Filed Under A slice of life, Britain, France
Through the joys of amazon, we have just finished watching Woody Allen’s light heated romp through Paris, Midnight in Paris. What a joy and for every Francophile around you and yours, it’s a must to sit back, enjoy and indulge in everything Parisian.
Allen has saturated the colours of the movie to reflect a denser, lusher experience, but why not? With Paris, you can do anyhting!
Without spoiling the – not very intellectual – script, you are taken backwards and forwards in time and visit many great Parisians or ex-pats who made Paris their home, from the art world.
It got me searching for a few quotes from some of the more famous characters in the movie and some, not in the movie:
Ernst Hemingway
- If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast
- Il n’y a que deux endroits au monde où l’on puisse vivre heureux: chez soi et à Paris.
(There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.)
Paula McLain: Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
Gertrude Stein: America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Mark Twain: In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Honoré de Balzac: Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
André Gide (French Nobel Prize of Literature winner): French people are Italian people in bad mood
Former French President Charles de Gaulle:
- I cannot prevent the French from being French
- How can anyone govern a nation that has 240 different kinds of cheese?
From movies/TV shows:
- Paris is always a good idea : Sabrina
- Remember, if there are any complaints, in France, the customer is always wrong : A Good Year
- We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it : Marge Simpson/Simpsons
Thanks to www.frenchdesire.com.au for some of the quotes and inspiration!
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