Conjuror falls for a psychic
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Woody Allen plays clarinet in a jazz band.
Set in the 1920s on the opulent Riviera in the south of France, Magic in the Moonlight is a new romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen about a master magician trying to expose a psychic as a fake.
Chinese conjuror Wei Ling Soo is the most celebrated magician of his age, but few know that he is really the stage persona of Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), a grouchy and arrogant Englishman with an aversion to phony spiritualists who claim that they can perform real magic.
Stanley visits the mansion of the wealthy Catledge family in order to debunk an alluring young psychic named Sophie Baker (Emma Stone), who is staying there with her mother (Marcia Gay Harden).
From his first meeting with Sophie, Stanley is sure that he can reveal her as a fake psychic who has fooled the Catledge family into thinking that she has magical powers. However, to Stanley’s great surprise, Sophie accomplishes numerous feats of mind-reading and other supernatural deeds that defy rational explanation.
As Stanley starts to believe that Sophie’s powers may in fact be real, he begins to realise that anything might be possible, altering his entire belief system in positive and unexpected ways.
Find out what happens when the romantic and amusing Magic in the Moonlight opens in local cinemas on November 20.
Vocabulary
- opulent (adj): made or decorated using expensive materials
psychic (n): a person who claims to have strange mental powers so that they can do things that are not possible according to natural laws, such as predicting the future and speaking to dead people
conjuror (n): a person who performs tricks in which they seem to make things appear and disappear
grouchy (adj): bad-tempered and often complaining
aversion (n): a string feeling of not liking something
debunk (v): to show that an idea, a belief, etc. is false
alluring (adj): attractive and exciting in a mysterious way
