Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is going to have the widest theatrical release of the director's career. Starring Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine has already made $9.9 million at the box office, still far below 2011's Midnight in Paris, which earned $56.8 million.
Woody Allen and Cate Blanchett Construct a Perfect Breakdown
Cate Blanchett is genius at demonstrating a veneer of icy sophistication slowly cracking. You can see glimpses in her eyes, her jittery jaw, her wringing hands, in the birdlike suspension of shaky limbs held akimbo. In Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen's latest film, her character Jasmine is a woman in the midst of a nervous…
Watch Cate Blanchett Elegantly Go Nuts in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine
Here's the trailer for Woody Allen's latest commentary on stylish neuroses—Blue Jasmine. Alec Baldwin is some sort of gift-giving swindler and Cate Blanchett is a woman suffering a nervous breakdown in a Chanel suit, using a Stoli bottle as a gavel. Oh and Louis C.K. shows up at the 1:22 mark! Enjoy.
