Pursuits
Review: Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine' Riffs on the Madoff Scandal
In Blue Jasmine, a riff on the Madoff scandal, Allen returns to his favorite obsessions
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“Money is better than poverty,” Woody Allen once wrote, “if only for financial reasons.” His new film, Blue Jasmine, concerns a woman, Jasmine, who learns this lesson when her husband is revealed to be a Bernie Madoff-like con man. Money wouldn’t solve Jasmine’s problems, but it would have bought her a hotel room, at least, so she wouldn’t have to crash with her broke sister and her sister’s needy boyfriend and kids.