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was still playing then… The Blue Moon.
And that sets the tone for this Sony Pictures classic
feature film that has blown minds all over the world with its critical acting,
picturesque cinematography, soothing background score and of course the
direction. I mean who could bring class into theme, brilliance and taste into
the same bottle bubbling with chic fashion and complete with an overwhelming
performance other than Mr. Allen; Woody Allen.
The film was marred with controversies from the start and
nay-Sayers say that, it cost Woody his directorial Oscar this year that went to
Steve McQueen for 12 years a slave (Not that we mind). Another of those period
pieces on slavery that America bears the stains of, and that ruled last year’s Oscars
too; but that’s a different story. Woody Allen paints a not so bright picture
of a high society posh dwelling wife of a fraudulent con man who goes through a
nervous breakdown after the secrets are revealed and slowly loses, mostly at
her expense, everything she tries to cling on and ride high. And Cate Blanchett
does mesmerise. With her epileptic phases, her mad jibber-jabbers to those
vulnerable points of time when the fossils of a woman who lives on Chanel and
Dior and drinks Bordeaux wine resurface. And Oscar does grace her performance.
The Best actress award was waiting to get her, rather, if I may. Cate
Blanchett, unlike other actresses has always enticed me with the extent of transcendence
she subjects herself to. Be it the Queen herself in the two Sekhar kapur films
or the Dylan act in Tod Haynes’ I’m not there, that still has people saying it
wasn’t her. I mean, who, if not she.
The other roles do fit perfectly too. Alec Baldwin looks
sharp as the con husband and does a pretty decent job. Sally Hawkins as the
sister also keeps a pretty worthwhile company to Blanchett’s Jasmine. The
script plays a vital role of being effectively sublime and the camerawork make
this subject sit on the eye. Karl Lagerfeld has designed the jackets himself
for Cate, those prim Chanel beauties and I must say Oscar is getting really
high on fashion dose these days be it Jared Leto’s transgender rough look in
Dallas Buyers Club or American Hustle’s Amy Adams in those minks and furs and
vintages.
I hope you’ve by now seen or plan to see the movie if not do,
do so. You’re in for a real Drama treat. Allen style.
Until next time….
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