Checking Out Woody Allen's MAGIC MOONLIGHT movie

Movie:  MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT written and directed by Woody Allen.

The two main stars in this movie are British actor Colin Firth and American actress Emma Stone.  The plot is in Europe in 1928 hopping between Germany, maybe Spain and Italy.  Colin Firth's character is an illusionist who openly admits all his magic tricks are just tricks and he vows to expose phony clairvoyants and mystics.

Emma Stone is the  phony clairvoyant and mystic and Colin Firth is the illusionist and spirit buster.  Emma  is  down to earth and  unpretentious.  Colin is a sophisticated snob.  Do you know what that is?  A Hollywood formula for the leading man and leading woman to fall in love.  Guaranteed!

The character Colin portrays get in several debates with Emma's characters, and other characters about what is real and solid and what is not.  He was debating against magic but the debate could easily be against religion with almost the same words.

Woody Allen has not made movies in the United States for several years now.  It is too costly.  It is cheaper in other parts of the world.    They ride all over Europe in a little sports car visiting the upper crust of society with the Mediterranean as the backdrop - pretty cheaply too!

I have always thought Woody Allen movies were great.    They get complex.  The self-worthiness of things are always  on the chopping block.  This movie, I'm not so sure.