Midnight in Paris

"Midnight in Paris,’’ Woody Allen’s 41st feature film, is a sweet-natured trifle, as flavorful and as thin as a crepe. It stars Owen Wilson as Gil Pender, a hack Hollywood screenwriter and struggling novelist who takes a series of late-night walks while visiting Paris and finds himself transported back to the expatriate era of the 1920s. There Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) holds court for such buzzing luminosities as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Tim Hiddleston and Alison Pill), Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll), Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and so forth.