La La Land (2016) (original) (raw)

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Director: Damien Chazelle
Writer: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, Callie Hernandez
Producer: Fred Berger

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Review by Brian Orndorf, December 15, 2016

6 / 10

It seems like every filmmaker holds a secret desire to make a musical, but few actually take a chance and attempt to restore a little sampling of Old Hollywood for modern audiences. The biggies have tried: Scorsese, Coppola, and Allen, laboring to relive their childhood fantasies of choreography, costuming, and songwriting. In the case of �La La Land,� writer/director Damien Chazelle is quick to pounce on a rare opportunity, using accolades collected from his last effort, �Whiplash,� to help fund his dream project. An elaborate homage to the musical genre, with specific attention to the world ...read more...

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