La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an.

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Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in Tra La La Land. Mia and Seb are throwbacks — if not quite to Ginger and Fred then surely to Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney or Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly — but they are also citizens of the present. They are better at acting than the other stuff, able to express emotion in nonmusical scenes with candor and conviction, but a little stiff- limbed and wobbly- voiced when the moment arrives for hoofing and chirping. In this, they’re pretty much the opposite of those earlier performers, who were vaudevillian troupers before they were thespians.

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Seb’s fussy jazzman antiquarianism is, in any case, an entirely plausible millennial affectation. His vintage car has a cassette deck in the dashboard, and he lives in a shabby apartment amid stacks of vinyl records and old concert posters.

His prized possession is a piano stool that supposedly once belonged to Hoagy Carmichael, and he’s upset when his unsentimental sister (the great, all- too- briefly seen Rosemarie De. Witt) sits on it. Photo. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in this film, which explores the old conflict between love and ambition.

Credit. Dale Robinette/Lionsgate In his approach to work, Seb is a proud purist, perpetually oppressed and affronted by the prospect of compromise. To pay the rent, he is obliged to take what he regards as demeaning gigs: tickling out Christmas carols and show tunes at a restaurant (the manager is J.

K. Simmons, the fearsome Oscar- winner from “Whiplash”); doing ’8. FR-EE The Horse Soldiers Full Movie. That friend, Keith, is played by the real- life R& B star John Legend, whose affable participation presents an interesting challenge to Seb’s dogmatic traditionalism. It seems doubtful that Mr. Legend would have shown up to perform music that he thought was bad, and Keith’s unapologetic commercialism is less a strawman for Seb’s high- mindedness than a plausible counterargument.

The difference between selling out and breaking through is not always clear, and “La La Land” is not so hypocritical as to pretend otherwise. This is especially true in Mia’s case. She works as a barista at a coffee shop on the Warner Bros.’ lot, dashing off to audition for small roles in dubious films and television shows. But, of course, the line between art and junk is also blurry, partly because to qualify for the junk you must be absolutely dedicated to your art.

Which Mia is, in a way that magnifies Ms. Stone’s extraordinary discipline, poise and naturalness. Photo. Commuters caught in a Los Angeles traffic jam break into song and dance in a scene from “La La Land.” Credit. Dale Robinette/Lionsgate The real tension in “La La Land” is between ambition and love, and perhaps the most up- to- date thing about it is the way it explores that ancient conflict.

A cynical but not inaccurate way to put this would be to describe it as a careerist movie about careerism. But that would be to slight Mr. Chazelle’s real and uncomfortable insight, which is that the drive for professional success is, for young people at the present time, both more realistic and more romantic than the pursuit of boy- meets- girl happily- ever- after. Love is contingent.

Art is commitment. As moviegoers, we might prefer not to choose, and in this case we don’t really have to.

La La Land” succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard- headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity. The artifice lies in the gorgeous colors, the suave camera movements and the elegant wide- screen compositions. In the songs and choreography too, of course, though it has to be said that, with one or two exceptions, these are more competent than dazzling. You’re more likely to remember what you saw than what you heard. The naturalness comes from the stars, and from the filmmaker’s disarming infatuation with the place apotheosized in song as the “City of Stars.” Taking his place in a long tradition of besotted Easterners, Mr.

Chazelle (from New Jersey by way of Harvard) can’t stop looking up at the palm trees silhouetted against the evening sky. The four chapters that track the changing seasons are a sly joke about the weather, which is always perfect. The magic hour — that purple- and- orange twilight cherished by generations of cineastes — seems to last for weeks on end. The Griffith Observatory might as well be heaven itself. Like a capable bandleader or stage illusionist, Mr. Chazelle knows how to structure a set, to slacken the pace at times in order to build toward a big finish. He memorably pushed “Whiplash” to a complex and thrilling musical climax, and he outdoes himself in the last 2.

La La Land,” and outdoes just about every other director of his generation, wrapping intense and delicate emotions in sheer, intoxicating cinematic bliss. The final sequence — one last audition, followed by a swirl of rapturous, heart- tugging music and ballet — effectively cashes the check the rest of the movie has written. On first viewing, for the first 9. Where is this going? Can this guy pull it off? Are these kids going to make it? Should we care? By the end, those questions vanish under a spell of enchantment.

La La Land. NYT Critic’s Pick. Director. Damien Chazelle. Writer. Damien Chazelle. Stars. Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie De. Witt, J. K. Simmons, John Legend.

Rating. PG- 1. 3Running Time. Genres. Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance.

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