owen wilson's theme song

When Stephane Wrembel said on Friday that he had a song in the 2011 movie "Midnight In Paris", and that the soundtrack had won a Grammy, I thought, "Very cool!"

What he should have said was that his song, "Bistro Fada", was used every time that 'Gil Pender' was out strolling solo on the Paris streets.

Every single time!

 

The first time "Bistro Fada" is heard, Gil is taking a walk in the night air after a somewhat stressful dinner with his fiancee and others.

She had advised him not to do so, saying he would "get lost" on the winding streets.

He went anyway, as the jazz two-step played, and ended up in the company of Cole Porter and the Fitzgeralds...

transported back to them alive and well in the  1920's when he caught a ride in a Peugeot.

He excitedly told his disbelieving fiancee about his experience and insisted she come with him the very next evening.

But no "Bistro Fada" music, and no magical transportal back in time occurred, so she left.

He stayed, as he'd even brought his manuscript as Gertrude Pound had promised to read it.

And as he paces and the music begins, the clock struck midnight... and the car came!

After that, he was doing the Patsy Cline bit, but walking just before midnight, not after.

Partly it was because of Hemingway and Picasso and all the other writers and artists in Paris in 1920 that he had adored for so much of his "born at the wrong time" life.

 

Mostly, though, he went back in time to see Adriana.

She, however, was not fond of her life in 1920, as she was enamored of La Belle Époque, so he shows her the trick place to transport.

And they go, but her choice is to stay in that time period... and he realizes, during "Bistro Fada" on a night stroll, that current-day Paris is where he wants to stay.

Choices and perspectives -

what a wonderful movie!

Thanks, Comcast, for this "$1 movie night" reward!

Thanks, also, to Stephane Wrembel, now half a century old and gladly sharing his decades of music, and stories, at the noon30 concert on Friday with his Quartet!

This photo is one I snapped off a fundraiser on youTube, as my phone stayed home instead of going to the Metal Building with me.

Stefane is the one in the front left.

Ari Folman-Cohen is the guy wailing on the bass behind him, and Nick Anderson has charge of the drums.

The three of them saw me dancing to quite a few of their tunes - including "Ecce Homo", "Lascaux", "Train de Enfar/ Carbon 14"- throughout their 75-minute set.

(The other guitarist, Josh Kaye, had his view of me blocked by a pillar.)

However, the song I most enjoyed dancing to, up on the stair platform, absolutely was that lively, jazzy, two-stepping waltz called "Bistro Fada".

I even danced to it every time it came up in the movie, as I watched it again this morning.

Yes, most definitely!

(smile!)