Cate Blanchett film marks the director's return to making movies in the States. But it's the stars who catch the eye
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is being welcomed as a return to late-period form for the writer-director. Well, it's a return to something, that's for sure. It's a return to America, where he's only made one movie in the last eight years – Whatever Works, which didn't – during his peregrinations across England and Europe. But it's not a full return to New York (except in flashbacks), which always makes me wonder if he isn't wanted for questioning over some heinous crime back in his beloved Gotham. Instead, most of Blue Jasmine was shot in San Francisco, a city for which Allen has little or no instinctive feel. It's also a return to A Streetcar Named Desire, whose broad plot outlines have been rather nakedly appropriated here by Allen, whether as...
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is being welcomed as a return to late-period form for the writer-director. Well, it's a return to something, that's for sure. It's a return to America, where he's only made one movie in the last eight years – Whatever Works, which didn't – during his peregrinations across England and Europe. But it's not a full return to New York (except in flashbacks), which always makes me wonder if he isn't wanted for questioning over some heinous crime back in his beloved Gotham. Instead, most of Blue Jasmine was shot in San Francisco, a city for which Allen has little or no instinctive feel. It's also a return to A Streetcar Named Desire, whose broad plot outlines have been rather nakedly appropriated here by Allen, whether as...
- 9/23/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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