Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine' Looks Truly, Madly, and Deeply Good
Summer's here, which means its time for a new Woody Allen movie, and we now have the first trailer Blue Jasmine, which looks like a return to form of sorts for the director, or at least a return to America—and a dark turn to his tale. Unlike some of his other more recent efforts—cough, cough To Rome With Love—this film seems less like a travelogue of some beautiful location than a character study of a woman falling apart. That woman, named Jasmine (get it?), is played by Cate Blanchett. Alec Baldwin is her jerk of a husband. Sally Hawkins is her sister who she goes to stay with in San Francisco when she loses her money. Hawkins dates "losers" like Louis C.K.
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To be sure, Woody Allen puts out so many movies that it's hard to know which ones are going to be good from a trailer alone. But this one comes with the promise of Blanchett being reliably fantastic. It looks like Allen has a real story here, too, one that has all kind of anger and resentment. Color us excited.
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