The British drink tea, eat crumpets and are emotionally distant, class-obsessed xenophobes. The French wear berets, wouldn't be seen dead without a baguette under one arm and have questionable hygiene standards. The Italians are a nation of dark-haired, olive skinned plumbers who spend most of their time ingesting huge quantities of mushrooms, then jumping on the backs of turtles whilst on a quest to save a Princess. Yet despite our differences we collectively managed to establish the culture which became the root of all modern western civilisations. And somehow that ended up with us, the Bad Dads, sitting here reviewing the Top 5 Movies with Europe in them.
Midnight in Paris follows disillusioned screenwriter Gill Pender (Owen Wilson) as he explores themes of romanticism of the past and nostalgia. Whilst holidaying with his fiancée and her parents, Woody Allen finds himself travelling back in time to visit 1920's Paris, meeting with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald amongst other cultural and artistic icons. The film received a number of accolades including Best Original Screenplay at the 84th Academy Awards.
We finish this weeks European themed episode exactly where you'd expect us to, at the Opera National de Paris watching teenage girls dance. It's Amazon Prime's Find Me In Paris, a completely bonkers, fish out of water tv series featuring a ballet dancing, temporally displaced Princess from the year 1905 who finds herself stuck in the modern day. Using a magical chimney to communicate with her boyfriend in the past, Helena 'Lena' Grisky must somehow navigate her way through the ballet school at the modern Opéra de Paris whilst maintaining her secret identity and being chased through time by a trio of steampunk douchebags.
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