La La Land

“Here's to the fools who dream.”

7.9

2016

2h 9m

ComedyDramaRomance

Director: Damien Chazelle

Overview

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.

Trailer

Official Trailer – 'Dreamers' Official

Cast

Sebastian

Ryan Gosling

Sebastian

Mia

Emma Stone

Mia

Keith

John Legend

Keith

Laura

Rosemarie DeWitt

Laura

Greg

Finn Wittrock

Greg

Tracy

Callie Hernandez

Tracy

Caitlin

Sonoya Mizuno

Caitlin

Alexis

Jessica Rothe

Alexis

David

Tom Everett Scott

David

Josh

Josh Pence

Josh

Bill

J.K. Simmons

Bill

Famous Actress

Amiée Conn

Famous Actress

Reviews

Gimly

"To me, _La La Land_ is like religion. I see the appeal, and I would never take it away from anyone. But I would also never stand in line for it." - Jeff WInger, probably. _Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._

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🌹 Rose

A very special, memorable film that will be iconic in the years to come.

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Per Gunnar Jonsson

This is definitely not a movie that I would have chosen to watch all by myself which perhaps explain why I thought it was just surprisingly okay to watch. However my girlfriend absolutely wanted to watch it so I got it. As it turned out my girlfriend had only gone by the number of Oscars and not really looked up what kind of movie it actually was so in the end I was enjoying the movie a lot more than she did. This movie is pretty much a quite classical Hollywood musical with a non too original story, nice music and dancing. In addition the cinematography is simply excellent. This is the strong point of this movie. The rest of the movie is of lesser interest to me but the cinematography is really, really good. The scene, pictured on the movie poster, were Mia and Sebastian dances and everything in the scene are dark blue tones except Mia’s bright yellow dress is so simple and yet so beautiful. Everything else about this movie is…okay. Okay acting, okay story etc. As I wrote before this is really not my kind of movie so forgive me for not being overly enthusiastic. I am sure those into these kind of movies cannot understand how anyone can give it less than a full set of stars but hey, different tastes and all that. I cannot make up my mind about ending. On one hand I am a sucker for happy endings which this one falls a wee bit short on. On the other hand I have to commend the writer/director for not taking the path of least resistance and instead putting together something a wee bit different. I did feel that a part of the movie was missing though. I would have liked to see the parts where Mia and Sebastian actually fulfilled their respective dreams. Jumping fast forward to the ending like the movie did felt a bit like they either ran out of money or they manage to misplace half the story! Anyway, I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would.

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