Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Simon McBurney, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
On the 1920s Riviera, a professional magician is called upon to unmask a medium before she hoodwinks a wealthy family out of their millions.
Review:
This rather weakly plotted comedy is another opportunity for the director to indulge his fondness the period's fashions and jazz music, while spinning a variation on his characters' perennial tussle between issues of empiricism and faith, in this case the irony of an alleged magician denying the existence of the paranormal. (Nor is it the first time he has used magic and magicians in his screenplays: Scoop, Curse of the Jade Scorpion.) On the plus side, Firth acquits himself with aplomb, Stone proves an adept at comedy, and being Allen it is at least brisk and breezy.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Simon McBurney, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
On the 1920s Riviera, a professional magician is called upon to unmask a medium before she hoodwinks a wealthy family out of their millions.
Review:
This rather weakly plotted comedy is another opportunity for the director to indulge his fondness the period's fashions and jazz music, while spinning a variation on his characters' perennial tussle between issues of empiricism and faith, in this case the irony of an alleged magician denying the existence of the paranormal. (Nor is it the first time he has used magic and magicians in his screenplays: Scoop, Curse of the Jade Scorpion.) On the plus side, Firth acquits himself with aplomb, Stone proves an adept at comedy, and being Allen it is at least brisk and breezy.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Simon McBurney, Eileen Atkins
Synopsis:
On the 1920s Riviera, a professional magician is called upon to unmask a medium before she hoodwinks a wealthy family out of their millions.
Review:
This rather weakly plotted comedy is another opportunity for the director to indulge his fondness the period's fashions and jazz music, while spinning a variation on his characters' perennial tussle between issues of empiricism and faith, in this case the irony of an alleged magician denying the existence of the paranormal. (Nor is it the first time he has used magic and magicians in his screenplays: Scoop, Curse of the Jade Scorpion.) On the plus side, Firth acquits himself with aplomb, Stone proves an adept at comedy, and being Allen it is at least brisk and breezy.