2016 · romance · musical · drama
La La Land
Directed by Damien Chazelle2h 9m2016
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.
Our read: La La Land (2016) reads as a warm, steady, grounded romance · musical · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
La La Land counts for 2 challenges
Warm, steady, gentle romance / musical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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