Blue Jasmine (2013) 7/10

Starring : Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Louis CK, Bobby Canavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director : Woody Allen
Running Time : 99 mins

Wealthy New York socialite Jasmine French (Blanchett) is forced to stay with her adopted sister Ginger (Hawkins) in San Francisco when her husband Hal (Baldwin) is arrested for tax fraud. She finds herself thrust into a working class life which she feels is beneath her, and it isn’t long before she also starts to realise that her husband was cheating on her with anyone he could.

This is better than some of Woody Allen’s movies, which seem to be turning up more and more frequently, but I still don’t think it was great. Allen’s apparently witty scripts seem to fall flat, and some of the lines here just don’t fit in with the situations (specifically when Blanchett is assaulted by her boos). Both Blanchett and Hawkins perform admirably considering what they have to work with, but considering Allen is supposed to be one of the best I expected more.

You’ll like this if you liked : A Streetcar Named Desire