Another late period Woody Allen film. Magic In The Moonlight is a romantic comedy, the kind of film Woody Allen had made before and probably a little better. Still the film does have it's charms for the most part.
Colin Furth is a magician called to the southern part of France to help expose a clairvoyant played by Emma Stone who has managed to ingratiate herself into a rich American family. I've seen Furth's character before in other Allen films, the athiestic skeptic who doesn't believe in real magic but succumbs to the charms of Stone's clairvoyant. The film at times becomes a discussion between rationality and the need to believe in a higher authority, god if you will.
The film eventually turns into a romance between Furth and Stone. Let's get this out of the way, Furth is too old to be involved with Stone who was probably in her 20's when she filmed this but the two performers are so good you can kind of set the age difference aside, kind of.
In fact the film is well cast as is typical for a Woody Allen film. The film also has nice photography on some pleasant locations and it is a pleasure to look at. Woody Allen films are always well assembled. For the most part this is a minor film but not without it's compensations particularly the performers and some of the amusing dialog.
Written as usual by Woody Allen, the film runs 98 minutes.
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