Does Woody Allen have regrets
His new film, Blue Jasmine, amplifies the air of concentrated self-examination that has long been a hallmark of his work.
Though marked by buoyant moments of wry humor, the film is devastating in its intense survey of a life in the free fall of mental and emotional collapse.
Cate Blanchett gives a tour-de-force performance as a wealthy New Yorker who discovers that her husband has built their fortune through fraud. After losing everything, she winds up with her decidedly more downscale sister in San Francisco, left to sift through the remains of her life.
Opening July 26 in the US (and in Septemeber here), Blue Jasmine finds Allen further exploring a thematic conceit that has been percolating through his recent movies since at least the dual stories of 2005’s “Melinda and Melinda,” as in film after film he has been pondering a series of existential what-ifs.
In 2010’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Josh Brolin played an unhappily married man who became obsessed with what his life would be like with a woman in the apartment across the way.
In the 2011 smash hit Midnight In Paris –
