Film Review – Blue Jasmine

Writer/director Woody Allen has been in a romantic mood lately. With the
fantasy “Midnight in Paris” and the farce “To Rome with Love,” Allen
was swept away by a golden European glow, scripting tales of life and
love with his special neurotic stamp. “Blue Jasmine” isn’t a
particularly friendly movie, returning the filmmaker to areas of
psychological warfare and social discomfort that have informed his
finest pictures. A satisfying blend of behavioral severity, “A Streetcar
Named Desire” homage, and laughs, “Blue Jasmine” is distinctly
Allen-esque, but dominated by Cate Blanchett’s stunning lead performance
— a masterful tightrope walk of delusion and deliberation that keeps
the effort absorbing and darkly comic.
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