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Yet in his pocket lay the faint scent of her perfume, and in his mind the memory of the trumpet’s last, lingering note. Midnight in Paris had been a thing that could be visited — brief, luminous, and irretrievably gone. He smiled, because some departures carry their own kind of grace.

The music serves as the film’s emotional anchor. When Gil hears it in the present, it feels like a memory. When he hears it in the 1920s, it feels like home. The score is a masterclass in using period-specific music to evoke a feeling of temporal vertigo. midnight in. paris