Set in the 1920s.
2 works chose this decade. They did not choose it from the same distance, so applying each gap from 2026 scatters them across 88 years — 1935 to 2023.
Midnight in Paris
Gil walks into the 1920s at midnight, 91 years behind the film that sends him there. Made in 2026, that same reach would drop him in the 1930s — a decade nobody in Paris romanticises, which is precisely the argument the film keeps making about golden ages.
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald wrote about the summer before last. The gap is 3 years — the smallest on this site by a wide margin, and small enough that the book was reporting rather than remembering. Written in 2026, the same reach would set it in 2023.