Blue Jasmine (2013)
82%RT Audience Score: 77%
Awards & Nominations: Won 1 Oscar
56 wins & 82 nominations total
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine finds the director in peak late-period form — and benefiting from a superb cast led by Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine is a movie that will knock your socks off, and if you’re not careful, you might never find them again. Cate Blanchett’s performance is so amazing that it’s like she weaponized her elegant image against us. The movie is a modern take on one of Williams’ most adapted dramas, and it’s an astutely crafted psychological character study that leaves you hanging on a melancholy note. Woody Allen’s last film, if it is his last, is a high note to go out on. Blanchett’s performance is something all its own, and it’s a towering performance that remains fixed on your brain. Overall, Blue Jasmine is a brilliantly watchable movie that’s worth watching just for Blanchett’s performance alone.
Production Company(ies)
Diamond Docs Fish Films, Oceanic Preservation Society
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, language and sexual content
Year of Release
2013
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital Dolby Atmos Dolby Surround 7.1 Datasat
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:1h 38m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jul 26, 2013 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 21, 2014
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, directed by Woody Allen, written by Woody Allen, drama, PG-13, Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Edward Walson, box office, $33.4M, reviewed by Deborah Ross, Kambole Campbell, Candice Frederick, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Anthony Quinn, Bruce Kirkland, Jason Adams, Joanne Laurier, Richard Crouse, Mike Massie, Murtada Elfadl, New York socialite, San Francisco, sister, job skills, dentist’s office, boyfriend, step up
Worldwide gross: $99,104,804
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $125,897,593
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 913
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 13,729,290
US/Canada gross: $33,405,481
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $42,436,587
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,140
US/Canada opening weekend: $612,064
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $777,534
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,310
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $18,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $22,866,265
Production budget ranking: 1,297
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $12,313,483
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $90,717,845
ROI to date (est.): 258%
ROI ranking: 520
Cate Blanchett – Jasmine
Louis C.K. – Al
Bobby Cannavale – Chili
Andrew Dice Clay – Augie
Sally Hawkins – Ginger
Woody Allen – Writer/Director
Letty Aronson – Producer
Stephen Tenenbaum – Producer
Edward Walson – Producer
Director(s)
Woody Allen
Writer(s)
Woody Allen
Producer(s)
Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Edward Walson
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
56 wins & 82 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
All Critics (232) | Top Critics (79) | Fresh (210) | Rotten (22)
It’s brilliantly watchable, if not mesmerising; and brilliantly performed, particularly by Cate Blanchett, who will knock your socks off, and may knock them off so explosively there is every chance you will never retrieve them again.
September 5, 2018
Deborah Ross
The Spectator
TOP CRITIC
Blue Jasmine weaponises Blanchett’s elegant image against us, showing a character who is trying with all her might to maintain this glamour that is falling down around her. Seriously, she’s amazing in this one.
August 25, 2018
Kambole Campbell
One Room With A View
TOP CRITIC
… what a fine way to revere one of Williams’ most adapted dramas with a modern take that thrusts its slowly malfunctioning central character into a new situation that only hastens her demise.
September 7, 2017 | Rating: A
Candice Frederick
Reel Talk Online
TOP CRITIC
Happiness is shown to be elusive in this astute study of aspiration and delusion that leaves you hanging on a melancholy note. If this should prove to be [Woody] Allen’s last film, he will have gone out on a high.
September 6, 2017 | Rating: 4/5
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
metro.co.uk
TOP CRITIC
In its basic situation can be heard the distant clang of A Streetcar Named Desire, though it’s neither pastiche nor reprise, just a quietly respectful tribute.
December 17, 2013 | Rating: 5/5
Anthony Quinn
Independent (UK)
TOP CRITIC
There is all this talent — and so little reason for it in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
December 17, 2013
Bruce Kirkland
Toronto Sun
TOP CRITIC
Cate’s performance is something all its own, splitting the seams of what might have been something entirely else, in somebody else’s hands
July 2, 2021
Jason Adams
My New Plaid Pants
Blue Jasmine is essentially a careless, mean-spirited piece.
February 27, 2021
Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site
Darker than most of Allen’s recent output, Blue Jasmine doesn’t go for laughs – very often anyway – but is an astutely crafted psychological character study.
January 31, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Richard Crouse
Richard Crouse
Purposefully structuring a film to deprive viewers of a precise beginning, middle, and end is a risky game that doesn’t always pay off.
December 3, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
Blanchett is the true author of Blue Jasmine. It’s a towering performance that remains fixed on your brain.
September 4, 2020 | Rating: A
Murtada Elfadl
Sundays with Cate
The film ultimately depends upon and is rewarded by Cate Blanchett’s insightful and emotionally resonant performance as Jasmine.
September 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0
Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com…
Plot
After her marriage to a wealthy businessman collapses, New York socialite Jasmine flees to San Francisco and the modest apartment of her sister, Ginger. Although she’s in a fragile emotional state and lacks job skills, Jasmine still manages to voice her disapproval of Ginger’s boyfriend, Chili.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Cate Blanchett’s performance in Blue Jasmine is “brilliantly watchable, if not mesmerizing.”
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