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La La Land
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- 2016
- Damien Chazelle
- 122 mins
- 12
Summary
Romantic musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. In Los Angeles, the showbiz capital of the world, pianist Sebastian and actress Mia endure an endless cycle of bar-room gigs and auditions in the hope they can turn their ambitions into a professional career. The pair meet and fall in love, but the path to making all their dreams come true is no simple affair.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Emma Simmonds
If ever there was a film to banish the blues, it's La La Land. In this Tinseltown-set musical from Whiplash's Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling play antagonists turned lovers - she's a barista and jobbing actress, he's a pianist eager to open a jazz club. Fate keeps throwing them together until eventually they stick, that's before their respective careers pull them in different directions. This is career-best work from Stone who displays great strength, buoyant charisma, winning cheekiness and aching vulnerability - all, somehow, with the lightest of touches. While not quite her equal, Gosling complements her charmingly. Some of the flashier sequences have the feel of showboating but the film grows more intimate as it wears on. La La Land pays tribute to the great musicals, emulating MGM's finest, but the audacious Chazelle infuses every scene with a modern sensibility, ingeniously working technology into the frolics. As gorgeous in its gloom as in its wonderfully shameless whimsy, this is a dizzying whirlwind of romance and sorrow - cinema to make you swoon.
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Cast
rolenameSebastianRyan GoslingMiaEmma StoneKeithJohn LegendBillJ K SimmonsLauraRosemarie DeWittGreggFinn WittrockTracyCallie HernandezCaitlinSonoya MizunoAlexisJessica RotheDavidTom Everett ScottJoshJosh Pence
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rolenameDirectorDamien Chazelle
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Theatrical distributor
Lionsgate
Released on
2017-01-13
Languages
English
Guidance
Swearing
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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La La Land wins Best Film at the Bafta Film Awards 2017
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