photograph courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
#Venice73 – Film Festival - Damien Chazelle
- La La Land. 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.
Written by Eirini.
Staring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling.
photograph courtesy La Biennale di Venezia –photo ASAC
“With La
La Land, I wanted to tell that story using music, song and dance. I
think the musical as a genre is a great vehicle for expressing that balancing
act between dreams and reality…I wanted to do a love story and I also wanted to
create a musical like the musicals that entranced me as a kid, but updated into
something very modern. I wanted to explore how you use color, sets, costumes and
all these very expressionistic elements of Old School movie making to tell a
story that takes place in our times.”
Damien Chazelle - director
#Venezia73
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Contessanally – brave attempt for a 2016 musical – far too long - 6/10
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