* AwardSnub: No nomination for scene-stealer Corey Stoll's performance as Hemmingway.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Most viewers will have their own favorite character, but ''everybody'' loves Creator/CoreyStoll's performance as Creator/ErnestHemingway.
** Dalí IS this trope, due to being a Cloudcuckoolander who was basically a walking SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, and played by Oscar Winner Creator/AdrienBrody.
** Creator/KathyBates' performance as Creator/GertrudeStein is also an eye opener.
** The Fitzgeralds.
* FanficFuel:
** Gil's comments that the people in the 1890s would be happier in their own Golden Age of the Renaissance can lead to speculation if any of them ever manage to travel the way Gil does.
** The detective (who presumably had some nostalgia of his own to time travel that way) ending up in the French Revolution (assuming he survived it).
** Does Gil ever show Gabrielle how to travel back?
** How many other people have used time travel to travel back to their golden age? Is Paris the ''only'' place where this phenomenon takes place?
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Gil trying to explain his troubles to the Surrealists.
-->'''Man Ray''': A man in love with a woman from a different era. I see a photograph.
-->'''Luis Buñuel''': I see a film.
-->'''Gil''': I see an insurmountable problem.
-->'''Creator/SalvadorDali''': I see…a rhinoceros.
* GeniusBonus: A knowledge of early twentieth century writers and artists is needed to know who half the cast is and what they are referencing.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The concept for ''Midnight in Paris'' first aired as a stand-up routine Creator/WoodyAllen performed during the 60s.
* OneSceneWonder:
** Creator/AdrienBrody appears as Creator/SalvadorDali, who is obsessed with rhinoceroses.
** Almost every artist or writer in this movie is a OneSceneWonder.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Gabrielle the antiques dealer is played by a pre-stardom Creator/LeaSeydoux.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode".
* WinBackTheCrowd: For fans of Creator/WoodyAllen, this is seen as one of the best films of his later career, even winning him his first Oscar since ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'' 25 years prior.
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