Film 4 Tenby's showing at the Fourcroft Hotel on Monday was the latest Woody Allen domestic drama, Blue Jasmine.

When patronising a Woody Allen film, you expect a lot of characters, and especially the main one, to endure a shedload of mental agony. There is always a lot of trouble and strife going on in everybody's head.

It's easy to convey this kind of angst in a novel, but very hard to do it on screen. And it requires a very high standard of acting.

Cate Blanchett won an Oscar this year as best female actress for her part in Blue Jasmine. It was an extremely convincing performance.

She played a New York socialite who had fallen on hard times and was trying to start a new life in San Francisco. A very slight story, you might think and it was, but because Cate's performance made the film fascinating.

The supporting cast were also extremely adept. It was - and this is getting rare in films these days - excellently cast.

This reviewer did not warm to Cate's character, but we were not meant to. This is pretty unusual for a film with a protaganist who is nearly always on screen.

But we were given the firm feeling that she brought all her misfortunes on herself. Nor were we asked to sympathise with the rest of the cast, who were nearly all seriously flawed as human beings.

It was not a joyous film - and it went against the great American movie tradition by having no happy ending. But it is a classic film for Cate and Woody to be proud of.

(Film 4 Tenby holds regular screenings of new and classic vintage films, usually on some Monday evenings).

Malcolm Stacey