The nick-pick king returns after his last soft-boiled effort, To Rome With Love, failed to stir up much excitement with critics and audiences. Woody Allen‘s Blue Jasmine however is already making waves in the film community and the result seems to be a resounding, ‘Yay.’ So long as Allen can channel that inimitable Allen-ness that made Midnight in Paris, alongside his countless older classics, such a winner, we’re all in store for another esoteric treat.

Unlike Allen’s recent entourage of globetrotting filmography, Blue Jasmine is not a love letter to a city as much as it is a dark character study. Starring Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin, the narrative follows a financial dealer (Baldwin) sent packing for prison after dealing outside the confines of the law and his wife (Blanchett) on the outside who is left to pick up the pieces.

Check the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FER3C394aI8

Blue Jasmine is directed by Woody Allen and stars Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Louis C.K., Sally Hawkins, Charlie Tahan, Alden Ehrenreich, Tammy Blanchard, Michael Stuhlbarg and Bobby Cannavale. It hits limited theaters on July 26.

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