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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

Жасмін, 블루 재스민

comedy drama

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Popular reviews

Review by Katie ★★★★½ 2

men are garbage directed by the garbage man
Review by brat pitt ★★½ 4

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 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…
Review by Simone ★ 16

It breaks my heart that Cate Blanchett acts her gorgeous face off in a film that does nothing to deserve her. Up until the last two minutes of Blue Jasmine , I was ready to sing its praises. I was ready to say I loved it! That it was one of my favorite films of the year! And then... it ended. I realized what I thought the film was heading toward was never going to come. The pay off on getting me to understand and empathize with this woman in the midst of a heartbreaking downward spiral never existed. The intention turned out to be merely an excuse to turn someone's real life pain, suffering, and sickness into a reason…

Recent reviews

Review by Curbi ★★★★

dude woody allen kan sexual abuse?

tapi bagus jir filmnya gmn dong?
Review by Schmidt ★★★★

I’m in the middle of a Boardwalk Empire catch-up marathon, so four stars for four Boardwalk actors. Remus is pleased.
Review by lizz hosanna ★★★★★

Oh dear. How terribly sorrowfully this movie was. I am not a fan of Woody Allen (for obvious reasons he is trash). But this movie was so moving.

I don’t even have the words to describe how much my heart aches for Jasmine.

I don’t want to say more because I really feel this just needs to be watched. But I loved it.
Review by Greg Tiller ★★★★

[Insert typical Woody Allen is disgusting but Cate Blanchett is a goddess review here]
Review by Munkhtuul ★★★

I don’t like any of these people..so why should i care?

Nothing really came out of this movie.

Why did she change her name? I wish they went further back and showed us what she was like before Jasmine..even if it were the same person I think it would have made sense in a way of saying that “people never change” or something..i dunno

If I were to rate this film on the performances of these two great actresses, then I would give 5 stars without a doubt.
Review by Anthony Oleszkiewicz ★★★★

This movie is a beast. It tears small chunks of the meat from the core of my soul with teeth of dry wit. I look into the creatures horrid eyes one last time and all I see is the gaunt face of Cate Blanchett looking back at me. I fidn the light at the end of the tunnel soothing as the final mortal sound reaching my ears is...
" This was playing on the Vineyard. Blue Moon. I used to know the words. I knew the words. Now they're all a jumble."
Review by léa ★★★½

cate blanchett. that's it.
Review by alice ★★

jus as I thought..... TRASH
(psa the 2 stars are solely, entirely for cate blanchett)
Review by margotbtr ★½

this movie doesn’t deserve cate blanchett