Actors: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin
Director: Woody Allen
Woody Allen films are successful if they manage to develop a meaningful subtext. The overarching text is usually going to be flawed in the ways most Allen films are flawed - characters don't feel three-dimensional, anyone who isn't a Woody Allen surrogate feels like an alien, and Woody left behind the real world in the 1970s. Most of these flaws are present here. It's whether or not even within that flatness and tone-deaf-ness, something more resonant emerges.
Cate Blanchett's character - a wealthy socialite from New York - does feel like someone Woody Allen has a grasp on, and he does an excellent job of showing how the trappings of such a life aren't easily discarded even after one's circumstances have changed. Blanchett's acting here is also phenomenal - Allen films these days tend to be worth seeing just for the performances he can drag out of people.
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