Set largely in Paris, this 2011 romantic fantasy follows a writer enchanted by the past. Rachel McAdams portrays his fiancée, representing modern practicality and emotional distance. Her role provides contrast to the film’s dreamlike nostalgia and artistic idealism. McAdams’s performance adds realism and tension, grounding the story’s themes of longing, dissatisfaction, and the seductive pull of imagined golden eras that challenge romanticized memories, personal fulfillment, growth, identity, perception, desire, and time.

