{"id":984,"date":"2014-07-25T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=984"},"modified":"2014-10-11T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T21:05:55","slug":"magic-in-the-moonlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/magic-in-the-moonlight\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From a 1925 Alfa Romeo to Jacki Weaver draped in $2.9 million in diamonds to vintage 1920&#8217;s French couture to the ethereal elegance of\u00a0 Cap d\u2019Antibes and Mouans-Sartoux to the ever dashing Colin Firth (*sigh*), Woody Allen steeps us in old world beauty and classic glamour touched with a bit of whimsy and all bathed in the MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT.\u00a0 Sparkling and twinkling like the bubbles in a glass of pink champagne or dancing like points of light on a moonbeam, with subtext, humor and romance, Allen creates a period perfect world of enchantment.\u00a0 Calling on his own lifelong love of and fascination with magic, Allen immerses us in an illusory world that beckons believers and non-believers alike, celebrating the era-spawning seances and mediums and a time where illusionists conjured oohs and aahs, much like Woody Allen does with his films.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-985\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-8.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 8\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-8.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-8-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stanley Crawford is one of the world\u2019s most celebrated magicians.\u00a0 With his true identity known only to fellows of the craft, Stanley is known to his adoring public as Chinese conjuror Wei Ling Soo.\u00a0 Employing many of the same \u201ctricks\u201d and vanishing acts of Harry Houdini, Crawford shares another trait with the master of magic &#8211; a fascination with clairvoyance.\u00a0 But while Houdini believes in the afterlife and the ability to make contact with those in the beyond, Stanley does not, and uses his celebrity as a tool to expose and debunk mediums and seances as the fakes he believes them to be.<\/p>\n<p>Having concluded his latest tour through Europe, Stanley is ready for a break when approached by an old friend and fellow magician, Howard Burkan.\u00a0 Seems that Howard and some other friends are looking for Stanley\u2019s help with the wealthy widow Grace Catledge.\u00a0 Grace is desperate to commune with her husband in the spirit world and has summoned a young American clairvoyant named Sophie Baker to her manse in Cote d\u2019Azur to help her do just that.\u00a0 Although Burkan and others can find no incongruities or loose threads in Sophie\u2019s abilities, it is their hope that Stanley can; not only preventing Grace from paying thousands and thousands of dollars to Sophie for her fraudulent chicanery, but also as a means for Burkan to show off Stanley to his other friends and the press as exposing yet another fraud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-3.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 3\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under yet another guise, that of a traveling businessman and acquaintance of Burkan\u2019s and\u00a0 on the pretext of visiting his aunt who lives nearby, Stanley is invited to visit the Catledge mansion to mix, mingle and be swept into the magic of Sophie\u2019s seances.\u00a0\u00a0 On meeting Sophie, Stanley is clearly taken aback by her youthful blue-eyed, red-haired, porcelain skinned beauty.\u00a0\u00a0 Not to be undeterred in his mission, however, he ignores the beauteous nature of the girl, taking a combative, sarcastic, superior tone in voice and demeanor; a tone which Sophie easily matches with wit and wry humor.\u00a0 But someone else also takes an interest in Sophie.\u00a0 Grace\u2019s ukulele playing, one song crooning son, Brice, who vows on first glance to marry Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>The harder Stanley tries to prove Sophie a fake, the more he marvels at her uncanny insights &#8211; even finding himself dumfounded when she \u201ccontacts\u201d Grace\u2019s deceased husband during a seance.\u00a0\u00a0 And as hard as Stanley tries with his mission, the harder Brice tries to woo Sophie and the faster she turns a deaf ear.\u00a0 But in one serendipitous drive after visiting Stanley\u2019s Aunt Vanessa, the unthinkable happens.\u00a0 Caught in a rainstorm with a broken down car, Sophie and Stanley take refuge in Stanley\u2019s childhood hideout &#8211; the Nice Observatory.\u00a0 And in those brief moments of\u00a0 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, Stanley must face the inevitable.\u00a0 He\u2019s falling in love with Sophie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-987\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-9.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 9\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-9.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-9-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colin Firth.\u00a0 Dashing, debonair, the epitome of romantic hero.\u00a0 Still, yet and always our beloved \u201cMr. Darcy\u201d, be he from Jane Austen\u2019s 1813 or Helen Fielding\u2019s 2001 London or here as Stanley Crawford, Colin Firth puts the masculinity and romance in the MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT.\u00a0 With a delightful disdain and joyless unhappy chill masking the true romantic beneath, Firth is the master magician as he slowly lets Stanley&#8217;s facade crack and then break.\u00a0 Yes, there are moments you will hear a collective *sigh* from the entire female audience as Firth weaves his spell over not only the film and Emma Stone\u2019s Sophie, but the audience as well.\u00a0\u00a0 Standout are not only multiple monologues Allen has Firth performing but, in essence, several soliloquies.\u00a0 It is rare that we see Firth\u2019s stage talents on display as we do here.\u00a0 He commands the words, the emotion and the screen with each, never faltering and never failing.\u00a0 Particularly enchanting are scenes between Firth and Eileen Atkins as Stanley\u2019s Aunt Vanessa.\u00a0 Many will recall Firth and Atkins\u00a0 as mother and son in \u201cWhat A Girl Wants\u201d.\u00a0 To see that chemistry revisited here as beloved aunt and doting nephew just adds its own loving magical touchstone to the film.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Stone is her usual exuberant, energetic self.\u00a0 She and Firth dazzle with Allen\u2019s dialogue, capturing the perfect wry tone and tit-for-tat sparring cadence a la Cary Grant and Roz Russell.\u00a0\u00a0 Interesting is the physicality that Stone brings to Sophie; an almost Elmer Gantry holy roller feel with over-exaggerated arm movements when Sophie \u201chas a vision\u201d but then contrasting that with a temperament that vacillates from ingenue to women\u2019s libber.\u00a0 It\u2019s an interesting juxtapositioned dynamic that while vibrant, doesn\u2019t find real footing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-988\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-2.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 2\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-2.jpg 398w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Howard Burkan, Simon McBurney is a man with a secret; something that McBurney is very skillful at never revealing yet, thanks to expressive eyes, gives us a subtle trail of breadcrumbs to follow and ponder.\u00a0 McBurney is one of the unspoken shining stars among the supporting players.<\/p>\n<p>Hamish Linklater provides some very entertaining comic relief &#8211; from Brice&#8217;s ukulele playing (for which Hamish hired a teacher to teach him how to play) to the foppish fawning and puppy dog eyes of adoration for Stone\u2019s Sophie.\u00a0\u00a0 Equally enjoyable is the mother-son dynamic between Linklater and Jacki Weaver who, as comes as no surprise, is chameleonic in her transformation into Grace Catledge.\u00a0 Weaver adds some more levity during seance sequences as she speaks \u201cinto the beyond\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Whimsical delight.<\/p>\n<p>Wasted talent is Marcia Gay Harden as Sophie\u2019s mother Mrs. Baker.\u00a0 Prune-faced, calculating and manipulative, her scenes are brief and appear to only serve as one tine to the fork feeding us McBurney\u2019s delicious breadcrumbs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-990\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-4.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 4\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-4-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Allen so adroitly does, he succinctly captures moments in time, romanticizes them with heart and humor, steeping us in time and place but with a timelessness of subtextual thematics, and all without uber-budget tentpole trappings.\u00a0 He relies on quick wit, double entendre, period and class distinctive verbiage and sentence structure of days gone by to inform the characters and the audience.\u00a0 Although somewhat formulaic within the rom-com construct, Allen uses the matter-of-factness of the formula to fuel metaphoric undercurrent discussion of parents and children, wealth and poverty, fact versus fiction, women\u2019s rights, religion versus the supernatural, tricks and tropes and of course, love, with each effervescing like points of light on a moonbeam.\u00a0 Carefully chosen locations and attention to period costume and subtle accoutrement in fashion and production design speak louder and inform more than the most over-stuffed and saturated framing we so often see from other filmmakers.\u00a0 The result is effective, immersive and beautiful and with MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, hints of George Bernard Shaw and Preston Sturges, and days gone by of the grand glamour of the Barrymores and \u201cThe Grand Hotel\u201d.\u00a0 Allen succeeds in making us feel like we are in the 1920&#8217;s with every moment holding the possibility for magic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-7.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 7\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-7.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-7-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Key to many of Allen\u2019s films, and definitely here, is his work with one of his returning cinematographers, in this case Darius Khondji .\u00a0 Celebrating the longitudinal and seasonal lighting of Cote d\u2019Azur and by lensing on 35mm, Khondji creates a sumptuous yet light sparkling visual\u00a0 palette.\u00a0 Romanticizing the European art deco of the period, Khondji heightened the experience even further using vintage Cinemascope lenses, softening the imagery.\u00a0 Notable is Allen and Khondji\u2019s decision along with color supervisor Pascal Dangin in post-production to render of the frames so as to give the film a 1920&#8217;s autochrome color.\u00a0\u00a0 Adding further to MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, in particular, is Allen\u2019s method of creating a frame and having the camera placed.\u00a0 The camera rarely travels with a shot.\u00a0 The shot is framed and the actors move within the frame.\u00a0 There are few if any cut-aways, thus creating a fuller portrait of the characters and fluidity of emotion within a scene.<\/p>\n<p>Costumer Sonai Grande outdoes herself here with vintage originals and couture design of the era which, when necessary, were made for the film with fabrics and trims from the 1920&#8217;s.\u00a0 Although Linklater wasn\u2019t too fond of the period tuxedos (\u201cThey were very uncomfortable\u201d), Weaver was thrilled with the elegance of not only her costumes, but the $2.9 million in diamonds she wears in the party scene.\u00a0 As comes as no surprise, clothing color is key to the characters and their respective philosophies; for example, Firth\u2019s Stanley is not only initially in rigidly constructed three piece suits, but in dark colors.\u00a0 As the film progresses and as Stanley\u2019s mind opens to possibilities of life and the life after, the color of his clothing lightens as does the fabric as we soon see him in casual cream colored linen.\u00a0 Jacki Weaver\u2019s Grace, a believer from the start, is always in light toned pastels, whites, silvers, silks and satins while reds and golds are prevalent in the design of Stone\u2019s Sophie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-994\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-6.jpg\" alt=\"Magic in the Moonlight - 6\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Magic-in-the-Moonlight-6-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Production design by Anne Seibel is breathtaking and never moreso than with the design of the party scene which is a color-rich sparkling splendor reminiscent of Joss Whedon\u2019s twinkling black and white backyard gala in \u201cMuch Ado About Nothing\u201d or Max Reinhardt\u2019s 1935 \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Capitalizing on lush locales like Villa Eilenroc in Cap d\u2019Antibes, Villa la Renardiere in Mouans-Sartoux and the Chateau du Rouet vineyard in Le Muy, perhaps the most magical and historically awe-inspiring is the Nice Observatory boasting a dome designed by Gustave Eiffel (yes, that Eiffel).\u00a0\u00a0 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT is rich in visual historical opulence.<\/p>\n<p>Classic romanticism told with the whimsical humor that is Woody Allen, MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT is just that &#8211; magic.<\/p>\n<p>Written and Directed by Woody Allen<br \/>\nCast: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Eileen Atkins, Jacki Weaver, Simon McBurney, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-995\" src=\"http:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/magic-in-the-Moonlight-5.jpg\" alt=\"magic in the Moonlight - 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