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Issue: Spring 2013
Blue Jasmine (2013) movie review
A Socialite Sings the Blues
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Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters, To Rome with Love, Midnight in Paris, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger )
Once upon a time there was a professional girl named Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), who did what professional girls do, she quit college to marry well.
She became a professional wife, she wore the right clothes with the right shoes, gave dinner parties for the right people, signed whatever was put in front of her and never, never, bothered her head about business. She had everything she could want.
Except that her husband (Alex Baldwin) was a liar and a cheat, and now she's running on Xanax and having flashback conversations with invisible people in the street and moving across the country to move in with her adopted sister in San Francisco.
Movie poster, Blue Jasmine
Whatever is a girl to do? She must take on something menial while she earns the money for schooling so that she can do something. But frankly all she's good at is marrying well.
Nancy Kilpatrick says:
The emotional heaviness is presented in a very modern and clippy story. Honestly, Cate Blanchett should win an Oscar for her performance, if this were a just world. The story reminded me a lot of Streetcar Named Desire -- two sisters (both adopted here), one marries up, and one down. Blanchett plays Jasmine (the Blanche Dubois character) in a performance of emotional range. Glad I saw this one.
Meanwhile she comes out of her vodka and Xanax haze often enough to notice her surroundings and decry her sister's taste in men.
Filmed away from Woody Allen's heartland (New York), but about a New Yorker, Blue Jasmine gives us a protagonist who refuses to redeem herself. The performances are able, the dialogue sometimes slips into trademark Allen rhythms, but it is a convincing portrayal of a collapsing universe.
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Just the facts:Title: Blue Jasmine (2013) The Players: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard Official website:http://www.sonyclassics.com/bluejasmine/ IMDb entry For session times of current films, use the cinema listings on the Movie links page. For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. |
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