For example, Easter is a moveable feast.) Allen gives us a feast for the eyes with stunning shots of Paris as his characters move about the city, coupled with the period jazz that is characteristic of Allen’s movies. In the book, Hemingway wrote: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” (A moveable feast refers to a holy day of feasting or fasting in Christianity that isn’t fixed and moves each year in response to the equinox. To top the year off, Corey Stoll portrayed Woody Allen’s take on Hemingway in Midnight in Paris.Īllen uses A Moveable Feast (Hemingway’s posthumous collection of essays about living in Paris in the ’20s) as the foundation for Midnight in Paris. The Paris Wife (a fictionalized account Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson) by Paula McLain also hit the New York Times Best Seller List. Fifty years after his death, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost 1934 – 1961 by Paul Hendrickson was published. The year 2011 proved that Ernest Hemingway is still hot, culturally-speaking.
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