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  Enhancing the look is production designer Waldermar Kalinowski who also admits to occasionally being bowled over by the entrancing beauty of some of the locations. "Because this is a comedy and a love story," he explains, "we searched for visual ideas that would give a flavour of the time and illustrate how people behaved. It's extraordinary from today's perspective, just how naive we were back then."

Because of his scientific background - he worked for NASA around the time of the moon landing - and the fact that he abandoned it for a different life, Kalinowski has a particular interest in the subject matter of "Rough Magic".

Kalinowski sees Wyatt's world, centred on Los Angeles, "as, post-atom bomb, a world of certainties, whereas the magicians world, Myra's world, is a world of uncertainty. The strange thing is," adds Kalinowski, "that science is now much more accepting of notions of uncertainty now; people have experienced the failure of certainty."

 
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