The two sisters are related by adoption only (an oft-repeated and rather unnecessary detail in case any of us were wondering how they could be so very different). She contrasts her sister in colorful patterns and too many pieces of costume jewelry. Her sister, Ginger, on the other hand, played by the ever-engaging Sally Hawkins, is a bit frowsy, and unkempt. She wears tailored shifts with her (sole surviving) Chanel jacket and tasteful genuine gold and diamonds. She’s like a piece of the finest crystal with a web of cracks that get bigger and bigger until the crystal shatters completely.Īs Jasmine, Blanchett appears in soft gold and pearl tones. It is raw and painful and up-close, in-our-face for much of the movie. I’ll add “so far,” because Cate Blanchett’s Jasmine is about as close to an Oscar sure thing as I have ever seen. He somehow gets the very best out of his leading ladies-which is confirmed by their 11 Academy Award nominations and 5 wins. Woody Allen, whether you love him or hate him, has always had a way with women. Imagine Ruth Madoff moving in with poor relations above a Mexican restaurant and applying for work as a dental assistant. And just like Tennessee Williams’s faded Southern belle, Jasmine has to lower her rather exalted expectations and swallow a heaping helping of humility. Like Blanche before her, Jasmine is escaping to the only refuge left, her sister’s place. At the baggage carousel, Jasmine continues her incessant monologue as she collects her matched set of Louis Vuitton luggage. We hear (for the first of many, many times) about her charmed life and fall from grace. She’s chewing the ear off a polite fellow passenger en route to San Francisco.
#HARD TO LOOK AWAY FROM A TRAIN WRECK MOVIE#
Blanche, Stella, and Stanley are all victims of an elaborate Ponzi scheme that has finally gone up in smoke, taking with it the fortunes of rich and poor alike.Īs the movie opens, our Blanche, one Jasmine French (née Jeanette but changed years ago to achieve more “panache”) is already relying on the kindness of strangers. Thanks to Woody Allen, I now feel I have.īlue Jasmine, Allen’s latest film (his 47th in almost as many years), takes Tennessee Williams’s familiar American tragedy and sets it in the modern era of Occupy Wall Street. Despite no small effort on my part, I wasn’t able to catch her in it. The war in Ukraine, supply chain disruptions, and the continued economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic are reversing years of development gains and pushing food prices to all-time highs.Ĭountries falling in the low and middle income groups are the ones most affected by the rising food prices since they spend a larger share of their income on food than people in high-income countries.A few years ago, the luminous Australian actress Cate Blanchett wowed audiences in Washington and New York as doomed Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire. The World Bank fears that the global crisis that has got triggered by high food prices will drive millions more into extreme poverty, magnifying hunger and malnutrition while threatening to erase hard-won gains in development. It is ranked behind Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Turkey, while Lebanon leads the list. World Bank in its latest assessment had found that Sri Lanka is ranked 5th in the world with the highest food price inflation.
The food group increased to 82.5 in July 2022 from 75.8 in June 2022." Statistics office stating the reason behind the rise in NCPI in its release mentioned, “This was mainly due to the higher price levels prevailing in both food and non-food groups. On Monday, the government’s statistics office said that the overall rate of inflation as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) on a year on year basis had gone up to 66.7% in July over the 58.9% recorded in June. The delegation is visiting to resume talks on reaching the staff level agreement between 24 and 31 August.
This announcement is economically strategic since it comes ahead of the visit by the IMF delegation which will arrive here tonight. Gunawardena further said, “We have to eventually bring down the deficit to 5% of the GDP to manage debt, reduce money printing and have low inflation." Sri Lanka is facing the worst fiscal crisis in its history," he said. “The Cabinet of ministers has approved a fiscal framework for 2023-2025. Sri Lanka with a population of 22 million has been going through a historic political turmoil as it has witnessed a significant political churn following massive mass protests that forced former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and resign from his post.īandula Gunawardena, the Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Information said on Tuesday, "Sri Lanka is planning to cut the budget deficit to 6.8 per cent of gross domestic product in 2023 from an expected 9.9 per cent in 2022."
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