Magic in the Moonlight 2014

Magic in the Moonlight | Magie au clair de lune

Magic in the Moonlight-Magie au clair de lune

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Set in the 1920s on the opulent Riviera in the south of France, Woody Allen's MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT is a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake.

• Can you spot the trickery or do you believe in magic?

Chinese conjuror Wei Ling Soo is the most celebrated magician of his age, but few know that he is the stage persona of Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), a grouchy and arrogant Englishman with a sky-high opinion of himself and an aversion to phony spiritualists' claims that they can perform real magic. Persuaded by his life-long friend, Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney), Stanley goes on a mission to the Côte d'Azur mansion of the Catledge family: mother Grace (Jacki Weaver), son Brice (Hamish Linklater), and daughter Caroline (Erica Leerhsen). He presents himself as a businessman named Stanley Taplinger in order to debunk the alluring young clairvoyant Sophie Baker (Stone) who is staying there with her mother (Marcia Gay Harden). Sophie arrived at the Catledge villa at the invitation of Grace, who is convinced that Sophie can help her contact her late husband, and once there, attracted the attention of Brice, who has fallen for her head over heels.

From his very first meeting with Sophie, Stanley dismisses her as an insignificant pip-squeak who he can unmask in no time, scoffing at the family's gullibility. To his great surprise and discomfort, however, Sophie accomplishes numerous feats of mind-reading and other supernatural deeds that defy all rational explanation, leaving him dumbfounded. Before long, Stanley confesses to his beloved Aunt Vanessa (Eileen Atkins) that he has begun to wonder whether Sophie's powers could actually be real. If they were to be true, Stanley realizes that anything might be possible, even good, and his entire belief system would come crashing down.

What follows is a series of events that are magical in every sense of the word and send the characters reeling. In the end, the biggest trick MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT plays is the one that fools us all.

''That the world may or may not be without purpose, but it's not totally without some kind of magic.''

Eileen Atkins as Aunt Vanessa

Did you know:

Spiritual mediums were all the rage during the 1920s.

The observatory that Stanley and Sophie take refuge in during the thunderstorm is the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur on the summit of Mont Gros. Built in 1887, with a dome designed by Gustave Eiffel (designer of the legendary tower), the observatory is still functioning.

Magic in the Moonlight Movie Details 🎥

Directed by

Woody Allen

Writing Credits

Woody Allen

Starring

Eileen Atkins

Colin Firth

Marcia Gay Harden

Hamish Linklater

Simon McBurney

Emma Stone

Jacki Weaver

Erica Leerhsen

Catherine McCormack

Jeremy Shamos

Cinematography by

Darius Khondji

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Countries: Unites States, France

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