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Blue Jasmine

Posted on February 26, 2014August 28, 2018 by Village Vidiot


“Blue Jasmine,” February 26, 2014 (2013), DVD, home. Woody Allen’s best film in two decades. This “Streetcar” for our time chronicles the collapse of Jeannette/Jasmine—a brilliant, Oscar-worthy performance from Kate Blanchett–from N Y socialite to SF psychotic and homeless woman with the fall of her corrupt financier husband – Alec Baldwin. A fascinating flip on Williams’s Stanley’s cruelty builds two excellent and very credible working-class men as the sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) husband/ex-husband Augie—a superb Andrew Dice Clay, and her new beau, Chili, wonderfully played by Bobby Carnivale. It’s also the first time in a long time that Allen hasn’t forced his actors to play him on-screen by incorporating his ticks into their characters. This is a film worth watching.

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