Thursday 7 May 2020

Magic in the Moonlight (2014 Woody Allen & scr)


Reviewed many times before.

So, there's no hereafter, there's nothing but what you can see in front of you, when you die, you die -- which is why you need to believe in a little magic, allow some illusions, fall in love.

That long (almost) uninterrupted take between Firth and Eileen Atkins is the best scene in the film. Notice how Eileen seems to be really concentrating on her card game, whilst delivering her lines brilliantly. And the writing - what's actually going on is she's making her nephew wake up to the fact he's fallen for the faker.


Firth is one of those people who've jumped on the "I'll never work with him again" bandwagon (including, surprisingly, Greta Gerwig), whilst Alec Baldwin and Scarlett Johannson are publicly on his side. I was trying to find something about Firth's experience working on the film, but this is all I got...

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