Blue Jasmine (2013)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 98m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Sarsgaard
Synopsis:
A New York socialite, humbled by her husband's indictment for financial mismanagement, and his serial infidelity, travels to San Francisco to throw herself on her sister's charity and rebuild her life. But old prejudices and pretensions are hard to lay to rest, especially to a diet of vodka and Xanax.
Review:
The same might be said of the writer... Allen's straightest work in a while is also his most critically acclaimed for more than a decade, even as it trots out all the old lines and obsessions, but with a lead performance that courts Oscardom and removes the need for the customarily star-studded cast. The mirror-structured narrative, with both sisters re-positioning themselves romantically, as it were, recalls Crimes and Misdemeanors, as does the payload of guilt carried around by the heroine but not revealed until late in the day; it is her capacity for self-delusion that most serves to fuel the irony and tragedy of her character, who ends up well on the road to bag lady-hood. It is a hugely self-exposing performance, with the actress looking from one shot to the next every inch a glamour puss, and then a puffy, boozed-up version of same.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 98m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Sarsgaard
Synopsis:
A New York socialite, humbled by her husband's indictment for financial mismanagement, and his serial infidelity, travels to San Francisco to throw herself on her sister's charity and rebuild her life. But old prejudices and pretensions are hard to lay to rest, especially to a diet of vodka and Xanax.
Review:
The same might be said of the writer... Allen's straightest work in a while is also his most critically acclaimed for more than a decade, even as it trots out all the old lines and obsessions, but with a lead performance that courts Oscardom and removes the need for the customarily star-studded cast. The mirror-structured narrative, with both sisters re-positioning themselves romantically, as it were, recalls Crimes and Misdemeanors, as does the payload of guilt carried around by the heroine but not revealed until late in the day; it is her capacity for self-delusion that most serves to fuel the irony and tragedy of her character, who ends up well on the road to bag lady-hood. It is a hugely self-exposing performance, with the actress looking from one shot to the next every inch a glamour puss, and then a puffy, boozed-up version of same.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 98m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Sarsgaard
Synopsis:
A New York socialite, humbled by her husband's indictment for financial mismanagement, and his serial infidelity, travels to San Francisco to throw herself on her sister's charity and rebuild her life. But old prejudices and pretensions are hard to lay to rest, especially to a diet of vodka and Xanax.
Review:
The same might be said of the writer... Allen's straightest work in a while is also his most critically acclaimed for more than a decade, even as it trots out all the old lines and obsessions, but with a lead performance that courts Oscardom and removes the need for the customarily star-studded cast. The mirror-structured narrative, with both sisters re-positioning themselves romantically, as it were, recalls Crimes and Misdemeanors, as does the payload of guilt carried around by the heroine but not revealed until late in the day; it is her capacity for self-delusion that most serves to fuel the irony and tragedy of her character, who ends up well on the road to bag lady-hood. It is a hugely self-exposing performance, with the actress looking from one shot to the next every inch a glamour puss, and then a puffy, boozed-up version of same.