About 50 miles northwest of Paris, you can comfortably visit Giverny, as a day trip from the city. It's actually a copy, after the original bridge, which the artist commissioned from a local craftsman, had deteriorated beyond repair. The Japanese-style wooden bridge, famous from his paintings, can be found in the water garden section. Monet lived on this estate from 1883 until his death in 1926. The movie proper begins in Monet’s Garden, the former home of impressionist painter Claude Monet in Giverny, where writer Gil reveals his love for the romantic image of old Paris. Among the flurry of images, you can recognise locations from other Paris movies, which may be homages or simply the best views of the city: there are the little Left Bank shops of rue Galande – with the giant flea sculpture – (seen in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset), avenue des Camoens with its view of the Eiffel Tower ( Francois Truffaut’s Le Dernier Metro), the columns of Parc Monceau ( Gigi) and the double-decker Pont Bir Hakeim ( Last Tango in Paris and, more recently, Inception). Like Manhattan, the movie opens with a montage of beauty shots set to a jazz score. Midnight In Paris location: little shops of the Left Bank: rue Galande, Paris
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