Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is brilliant and unsettling

Woody Allen, now 77-years old, is dead serious in his latest film, Blue Jasmine, though his emblematic relief-giving humor plays off stereotypes about New Yorkers, the San Francisco landscape, class/cultural differences, and dysfunctional human relationships. According to a recent Wall Street Journal tribute to the iconic director, his 48th feature, "is based on a story…