La La Land
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star in this all-singing, all-dancing musical comedy from the director of 2014's brilliant Whiplash. Story follows a jazz pianist who falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. Multiple award winner at the 2017 Golden Globes including Best Picture (Comedy or Musical).
- Director:
- Damien Chazelle ('Whiplash')
- Writer:
- Damien Chazelle
- Cast:
- Emma StoneRyan GoslingFinn WittrockJ.K. SimmonsSonoya MizunoRosemarie DeWittJohn Legend
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Dominic Corry
flicksAbout halfway through Damien Chazelle's quietly transcendent La La Land, aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) is reassuring a mildly dejected Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) about his unlikely dream of opening a jazz club in a world that doesn't care about jazz. The reason the club will be a success, asserts Mia, is because Sebastian himself is so passionate about jazz, and people enjoy responding to that kind of passion.
Normally a musical lover but really struggled with this one.
I must have missed the memo everyone else got, I struggled through LA LA Land, a lot of it felt very wooden and disjointed - as well as musically disappointing. It would have been a ball to make but it just didn't gel with me. Felt like it was overly self indulgent. Sadface! I really wanted to love it!
4 stars for the final scene
Good but not great. Clearly everyone wants a feel good flick in these dark times because this is not a 5 star film. Stone and Gosling do a fine job with no other characters being fleshed out at all. The songs are average at best and the dancing essentially only works as an homage to West Side Story and the brilliance of Astaire and Rogers. The strength of...
Variety
pressThe most audacious big-screen musical in a long time, and - irony of ironies - that's because it's the most traditional.
Vanity Fair
pressBegins with such an ecstatic rush of joy -- and ends with such a gloriously bittersweet flourish -- that you kinda can't blame the film for sagging a bit in the middle.
Time Out
pressBreaking into song and dance can be both deadly serious and a whole lot of fun.
The Guardian
pressSuch a happy, sweet-natured movie - something to give you a Vitamin D boost of sunshine.
Stuff
pressLa La Land gets its hooks (and harmonies) into you and by the end I was entranced by its love letter to Los Angeles...
Sight & Sound
pressChazelle has crafted that rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy, and as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green.
New Zealand Herald
pressA thoroughly modern musical which reminds what great cinema song and dance movies can be.
Newshub
pressThe characters, the chemistry, the story, the music, the dance, the romance, the view - it all tapped right into the inner recesses of my fanatical love affair with cinema.
Los Angeles Times
pressChazelle has assembled a vibrant, infectiously hummable pastiche of musical and cinematic styles - an entrancing ode to the glories of cinema past as well as a heartfelt expression of faith in the medium's future.
Hollywood Reporter
pressFor Chazelle to be able to pull this off the way he has is something close to remarkable.
Flicks, Dominic Corry
flicksAbout halfway through Damien Chazelle's quietly transcendent La La Land, aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) is reassuring a mildly dejected Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) about his unlikely dream of opening a jazz club in a world that doesn't care about jazz. The reason the club will be a success, asserts Mia, is because Sebastian himself is so passionate about jazz, and people enjoy responding to that kind of passion.
Variety
pressThe most audacious big-screen musical in a long time, and - irony of ironies - that's because it's the most traditional.
Vanity Fair
pressBegins with such an ecstatic rush of joy -- and ends with such a gloriously bittersweet flourish -- that you kinda can't blame the film for sagging a bit in the middle.
Time Out
pressBreaking into song and dance can be both deadly serious and a whole lot of fun.
The Guardian
pressSuch a happy, sweet-natured movie - something to give you a Vitamin D boost of sunshine.
Stuff
pressLa La Land gets its hooks (and harmonies) into you and by the end I was entranced by its love letter to Los Angeles...
Sight & Sound
pressChazelle has crafted that rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy, and as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green.
New Zealand Herald
pressA thoroughly modern musical which reminds what great cinema song and dance movies can be.
Newshub
pressThe characters, the chemistry, the story, the music, the dance, the romance, the view - it all tapped right into the inner recesses of my fanatical love affair with cinema.
Los Angeles Times
pressChazelle has assembled a vibrant, infectiously hummable pastiche of musical and cinematic styles - an entrancing ode to the glories of cinema past as well as a heartfelt expression of faith in the medium's future.
Hollywood Reporter
pressFor Chazelle to be able to pull this off the way he has is something close to remarkable.
Normally a musical lover but really struggled with this one.
I must have missed the memo everyone else got, I struggled through LA LA Land, a lot of it felt very wooden and disjointed - as well as musically disappointing. It would have been a ball to make but it just didn't gel with me. Felt like it was overly self indulgent. Sadface! I really wanted to love it!
4 stars for the final scene
Good but not great. Clearly everyone wants a feel good flick in these dark times because this is not a 5 star film. Stone and Gosling do a fine job with no other characters being fleshed out at all. The songs are average at best and the dancing essentially only works as an homage to West Side Story and the brilliance of Astaire and Rogers. The strength...
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