Blue Jasmine

2013 Directed by Woody Allen

Blue Moon. I used to know the words. Now they’re all a jumble.

Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ignored, she tries to recover in her present. Unfortunately, it all proves a losing battle as Jasmine’s narcissistic hangups and their consequences begin to overwhelm her. In doing so, her old pretensions and new deceits begin to foul up everyone’s lives, especially her own.

Cate Blanchett Alec Baldwin Sally Hawkins Bobby Cannavale Louis C.K. Peter Sarsgaard Andrew Dice Clay Michael Stuhlbarg Alden Ehrenreich Charlie Tahan Max Casella Tammy Blanchard Martin Cantu Daniel Jenks Max Rutherford Ali Fedotowsky Joe Bellan Diane Amos

Alternative Titles

蓝色茉莉, 블루 재스민, Жасмін

comedy drama

98 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by katie ★★★★½ 3

men are garbage directed by the garbage man
Review by brat pitt ★★½ 5

i was so strong ..... for four years .... four long years of wanting to see my girl cate's oscar winning performance ....... but not wanting to support w**dy a**en in any way ......
last night, i lost my battle. i broke my boycott. cate, if you're reading this, just know that i truly would do anything for you
Review by Scott Tobias ★★★ 4

Gets better as it goes along, but begins terribly, with a lot of the sloppy, careless writing that has characterized the Woodman's more recent output. Given how frequently Allen flashes back to Jasmine's life before her husband became a Bernie Madoff-like disgrace, the amount of exposition he stuffs into the first 10 or 15 minutes is curious and unnecessary. And as with Whatever Works and Cassandra's Dream, the humble class is treated broadly and inauthentically: Does Allen not realize that Ginger's two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is miraculously spacious for a single mother of two who bags groceries for a living? And he's very lucky to have an actor of Bobby Cannavale's caliber to redeem "Chili"; with his ridiculous hair and wardrobe, he could have been "Scumbag X" in Hollywood Ending, but Cannavale gives him humor and soul.
But as I said, it gets better. Blanchett is terrific as advertised, and the ending is admirably tough.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 6

Though Woody Allen has limited his on-screen performances in recent years (he’s only cast himself once since 2006’s “Scoop”), it’s never been more obvious that the bespectacled iconoclast appears in all of his films. For Allen, the movies are not a place to escape but rather a place to reflect and refract, his characters offering a kaleidoscopic window into their creator’s kvetching soul.
Over the course of Allen’s 50-year career, he’s evinced a remarkable, Zelig-like capacity to bend any genre to his will – the only thing less believable than the fact that “Sleeper” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors” were made by the same man would be the idea that they weren’t.
It’s true that the best of Allen’s recent films…
Review by maria ★★★½ 8

tag yourself, i'm cate blanchett's nervous breakdown
Review by Luke Kane ★★★★ 11

Woody Allen proves that a nervous collapse and psychosis can be fun with the right actress. Jasmine, an awful upper-Manhattan socialite, is forced to relocate to San Francisco to live with her sister after falling into public disgrace, and in the process of trying to rebuild her life goes insane.
Rarely does a Woody Allen movie come out that cuts as deeply as Blue Jasmine. It has its finger on the pulse of contemporary life in a way that's totally disarming. These characters live in the immediate world, both rich and poor. In moments they even seem to be slightly ahead of the curve.
It's hard to consider the success of Blue Jasmine without simultaneously considering Blanchett's performance. She is…

Recent reviews

Review by giovanna ★★★★½

Essa foi a melhor performance da carreira da Cate Blanchett, e sinceramente, uma das melhores atuações que eu já vi na vida junto de Joaquin Phoenix em Joker.
Esse também foi o primeiro (talvez único) filme do Woody Allen que eu realmente gostei, não vou mentir.
Porém, apesar de ter gostado desse filme (grande parte por causa de Cate Blanchett), espero que Woody Allen, pelo bem da humanidade, pare de fazer filmes.
Review by Pok Manero ★★★★

Allen logra meter momentos y situaciones humorísticas en un drama hecho y derecho, pues dista de ser una comedia pero uno no puede evitar encontrar cierto humor oscuro e irónico al ver las mentiras de Jasmine y su inevitable caída ocasionada por su propia mano. Por un momento pensé que sería como Las noches de Cabiria, cuando no sabemos si el nuevo pretendiente es en realidad lo que aparenta ser o sólo un oportunista más que quiere aprovecharse de alguien a quien la vida ya ha golpeado demasiadas veces. Pero en un contraste diametralmente opuesto a lo planteado por Fellini, Jasmine se vuelve una víctima del implacable capitalismo y su habitual deshumanización en un mundo de apariencias donde la gente sólo vale por el contenido de su cuenta bancaria. El final es a la vez trágico y patético, realmente conmovedor. Y Blanchette es genial, como siempre. Logra ser entrañable y detestable al mismo tiempo.
Review by Cinema Explosion! ★★★★

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Review by drezecos ★★★★

Imagine having so much talent as Cate Blanchett. Her performance is extraordinarily perfect: frightening, funny, deeply sad, frustrating... what a rollercoaster.
Bow down to the queen!!
Review by mrharringtonfan ★★★½

Cate Blanchett was very good here, as was the rest of the supporting cast. Thought, when I found out this was directed by Woody Allen, I felt ashamed for liking it as much as I did.
Review by Matías Sanz Cavallera ★★★½

Kind of disappointed for the movie labeled as "the last great movie of Woody Allen".
I always find entertainment in a Allen film. His movies are filled with a very light nature. Dramatic and funny but not too dramatic or funny.
But I find his style too simplistic and empty.
Blue Jasmine features an amazing performance by Care Blanchet and besides that all the rest is just fine, the characters, the story, the cinematography. I don't know.
I can't even call it solid because it has some slopy writing, too many casualties. And very questionable use of flashbacks. The exposition is too much.
The movie it's good but nothing memorable.
Review by Mandy ★★★½

A very well acted movie by Cate Blanchett, reacting to her trash husband.
Review by sasagish ★★★★½

What a fun, fun movie. Great writing and simple direction. A confusingly delightful soundtrack.
Cate Blanchett is hauntingly good, but this time I see that so is the rest of the cast. Sally Hawkins is endearingly mediocre, meek and insecure but somehow full of life and confidence. The men in the film are also outrageous, either duplicitous or dim or just kinda gross, each so varied in their flaws. The caricatured distinctions the film makes between high and low class life feel so painfully realistic.
Flashbacks interject often, each one a gem. The gradual reveal is masterfully woven throughout. Every scene layers on more character or comedy or discomfort until the whole story is told.
Though hardly 100 minutes long,…
Review by lana ★★★★★

utterly devastating