"Is it too nostalgic? It feels nostalgic," Emma Stone's aspiring actress character says at one point in La La Land about a one-woman show she's writing. "Are people going to like it?"
"Who cares?" Ryan Gosling's struggling jazz pianist replies. "F**k them."
Although all-around self-reflective, it's the moment where the movie most directly comments on itself. The story follows Mia (Stone), who can't land a part, and Sebastian (Gosling), who is unfulfilled with his supper club gigs, after they meet cute and, though their opposing personalities initially clash, soon find themselves swept up in a whirlwind romance before settling into something like a real love story.
It's a thoroughly modern film, capturing all of the minutiae of being a millennial in 2016, as well as the intricacies of falling in and out of love while chasing your dreams in Los Angeles, but it's presented through a filter of old Hollywood. There are shades...
"Who cares?" Ryan Gosling's struggling jazz pianist replies. "F**k them."
Although all-around self-reflective, it's the moment where the movie most directly comments on itself. The story follows Mia (Stone), who can't land a part, and Sebastian (Gosling), who is unfulfilled with his supper club gigs, after they meet cute and, though their opposing personalities initially clash, soon find themselves swept up in a whirlwind romance before settling into something like a real love story.
It's a thoroughly modern film, capturing all of the minutiae of being a millennial in 2016, as well as the intricacies of falling in and out of love while chasing your dreams in Los Angeles, but it's presented through a filter of old Hollywood. There are shades...
- 12/9/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
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