An American falls for the charms of the City of Lights. Comedy directed by Woody Allen with Owen Wilson and Carla Bruni.

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On a short trip to Paris, a young badly matched American couple whose only common ground seems to be getting married in the fall become disillusioned by their own lives as they become fascinated by the French capital. The Californian fiancé, a Hollywood screenwriter, imagines himself a novelist in the 1920’s as Paris works its magic; at the stroke of midnight every night he meets his idols, from Hemingway to Cole Porter, by way of Fitzgerald.

After glamorizing the city of Barcelona and its banalities with the deceiving Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen applies the same formula to Paris: with an endless succession of visual and intellectual clichés, this superficial turkey is a postcard for Americans. Formally perfect and very nice on the surface, it is devoid of even a modicum of soul.