Love Exposure vs Magic in the Moonlight
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.5/10 for Magic in the Moonlight). Magic in the Moonlight is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2014). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
Magic in the Moonlight| Love Exposure | Magic in the Moonlight | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2014 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 38m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Woody Allen |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Hamish Linklater, Simon McBurney, Marcia Gay Harden, Catherine McCormack, Erica Leerhsen |
Synopsis
Love Exposure
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Magic in the Moonlight
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
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