Midnight in Paris (2011 Woody Allen & scr)

Owen Wilson - visiting Paris with fiancée Rachel McAdams - becomes unstuck in time and in the Twenties meets Hemingway (Corey Stoll, unforgettable), the Fitzgeralds (Tom Hiddlestone and Alison Pill), Dali (Adrien Brody), Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) et al and falls in love with Marianne Cottillard, who herself is an escapist who dreams of the Belle Epoque: and thus the film's theme. Not as deep as some of his films but extremely winning, I was surprised the script won the Oscar (but not, you'll note, the BAFTA).

Begins unusually with a pre-credits homage to Paris (in a similar vein to Manhattan), in the rich tones you'd expect of Darius Khondji, then has the credits over Wilson's dialogue.

Would you get into the car? So would I!

Corey Stoll as Hemingway

Uses a repeated guitar track (Bistro Fada by Stephane Wrembel) as a theme.

Features Michael Sheen (as one of those pompous bores Woody writes so well) and Carla Bruni.

Wonderful production design and art direction by Anne Seibel and Jean-Yves Rabier. The French must have loved him, and I'll bet tourism went up as a direct result.