Blue Jasmine

Today, I’m really happy to talk to you about one of my favorite screenplay and director : 

Woody Allen ! 

At first, I would like to present you this inescapable screenplay, but director also : his movies, his awards, and his “habits”. After that, we will talk about his new movie, released in September in the USA : 

Blue Jasmine.

To begin, I would like to present you briefly Woody Allen, who is one of screenplays the most admired of our century. Woody Allen was born the 1^st December 1935 (yes, he is 78 years old !). He was noticed by Charles Fedman, and began his career by rewriting scenarios, as “What’s New pussycat?” in 1965, or “Casino Royale” in 1967. But Woody will stand out later, with more personal and more melancholic works, but always full of automockery, as Annie Hall or Manhattan, in which will be express his first muse Diane Keaton. After that, he met Mia Farrow in the 80s, his new muse who will appear in all its movies, almost all were made in New York. In the 2000s, he moves his camera to Europe, where he will stop in London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome, with Scarlett Johansson in Match Point, Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Marion Cotillard in Midnight in Paris, and Roberto Begnini, Penelope Cruz and Woody Allen himself in To Rome with Love. Finally, in 2013, Woody Allen choose to come back in the US, between the east cost and the west coast in San Francisco with his new movie, Blue Jasmine.

Despite his auteur status, Woody Allen is often considered only as a writer : he is been nominated 15 times for the best screenplay (winning three times), and only 7 times for director (only one win!). Maybe it will change with Blue Jasmine, if its box-office surge continues. Few critics say that it could be the best movie of Woody for years …

Jasmine, New Yorker also snob that elegant woman, decides to settle down at her sister's Ginger's, who lives in modest one apartment of San Francisco, to try to surmount the failure of her marriage. Jasmine, is perturbed, under the influence of antidepressants, and psychologically unstable when she arrives to her sister. Jasmine has a weakness: she sees herself only through the other people's opinion, and refuses to see the reality, she looks the other way…

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/aug/27/oscars-2014-blue-jasmine-woody-allen

Floriane