AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

mrdanielhur Cate Blanchett is so convincing as a mentally unstable, depressed and vulnerable woman and leaves us all glued to the screen to see what stupid thing she does next! Cate Blanchett exclusively dives into this character as Jasmine and gives yet another great performance that definetely deserved her the Oscar! love her!

jonputtman-9980346 On Woody Allen's Blue JasmineI've seen several Woody Allen films, and I've enjoyed them all. But here, he brilliantly tells a very believable story of a woman who is obviously in major distress, and attempts to come out of it. His story here doesn't crash and burn as I thought it might have, but instead the story was consistent with its main character's personality. All though she came and lived with her sister, it very well could have been a story of siblings or friendship, but instead it became something much different...something more creative. Woody Allen masterfully created a character that was flawed, but yet this character also we could feel for. Her husband had multiple affairs on her and told her that he was in love with someone else. That was something that we could inevitably have emotion for and maybe even so personal connections. As in his brilliant masterpiece Annie Hall, Allen makes a regular bunch of people come together to make a wonderful rich story. Cate Blanchett's character, Jasmine, comes from marrying rich, but her husband is found as a crook. Then she ends up living with her sister and trying to find a job and so forth. Sounds like a typical life story of someone who comes out of a marriage. But what happens here is that Wood Allen creates a character that is special, someone different from most people. She has a hard time adjusting to the new world she is in. Most people would be able to adjust. Not only this, but she starts influencing her sister as well, creating a whole new atmosphere around her. We see what she was like before the film began.The framework worked well, as it was simple just as the story. Nothing too major with the camera, except fantastic photographic images that are still in my mind now. I must say, symmetrical images in films that give such wonderful color contrast is truly a piece of art. Just as in all of Wes Anderson's work, Woody Allen creates some great flat shots, where we see color and perfect alignments with objects in the scene. When Jasmine is in the bathtub, we see flowers on either side, not perfectly symmetrical but to the extent where we get the point (also makes it more realistic), and when we walk into her and Hal's living room for the first time; a wonderful shade of dark green brought out by a beautiful brown. The colors match the scenes and make a wonderful artwork to look at.Overall this film was a great edition to the Woody Allen library and makes me want to go and re-watch Midnight in Paris to see if I notice anything I hadn't noticed before. I thought the film had complex characters set into a believable storyline and it created a fine story to want to sit down and watch.

Gre da Vid This Woody Allen movie is worth watching. Cate Blanchett is Woody Allen. It's amazing how Woody puts himself into each character in his writing.

weingartena-819-142661 I haven't liked Woody Allen for decades - his last funny movie was Broadway Danny Rose, and everything since has been downhill. Still, this movie caught my attention enough for me to have an opinion about it: It is certainly not funny, it is a tragedy: it depicts a tragic course of events that need not have happened. A wife (Cate Blanchett) who by an idiotic-impulsive whim triggers the downfall of both her husband (Alec Baldwin) and her own lifestyle - driving her to seek "the kindness of strangers", in the form of her estranged stepsister and her new partner. Both of whom live far from the stylish rich Manhattan lifestyle she'd been accustomed to. Interesting stuff, and I'm surprised someone like Woody Allen can capture mundane tragedy in this way.