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By Joanne Hilty Special to the Rappahannock News

“Match Point” is Woody Allen’s best movie in years. Taking place in London with British actors and dark humor, Allen writes and directs with a newfound energy. In “Match Point” he works in a foreign country for the first time and looks into tragic events for philosophical understanding. The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community is showing this film at the Theatre on Gay Street, Washington, VA, Friday, August 18, 8:00 p.m.

The story is set in contemporary England with Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as a former tennis pro who leaves the circuit when he realizes he isn’t good enough.

He gets a job teaching tennis to wealthy clients at a posh London club. Here he meets Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), and they discover a mutual interest in opera. An invitation from Ibm to join him in the family opera box allows Chris to meet Tom’s sister, Chloe (Emily Mortimer), a pleasant and sweet woman, who quickly develops a romantic interest in the handsome tennis coach. Chris soon obliges her, more out of friendliness than any grand passion.

But passion sparks when he meets Tom’s fiancee, the moody and provocative Nola

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