La La Land

"Here's to the fools who dream."

2016 2h 9m EN

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7.9

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91%

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★7.9TMDB · 18,564🍅91%Rotten Tomatoes●94Metacritic★8IMDB · 759,966

ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

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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.

“Here's to the fools who dream.”

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Cast

Ryan Gosling
Sebastian
Emma Stone
Mia
John Legend
Keith
Rosemarie DeWitt
Laura
Finn Wittrock
Greg
Callie Hernandez
Tracy
Sonoya Mizuno
Caitlin
Jessica Rothe
Alexis

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Damien Chazelle
Writers: Damien Chazelle
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Grossed $509M — a 17.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 10 years ago.

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3 / 8

CAST

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392+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Damien Chazelle, shot by Linus Sandgren. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Justin Hurwitz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Tom Cross shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and John Legend carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Here's to the fools who dream.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Damien Chazelle directs. Linus Sandgren behind the camera. Justin Hurwitz scores. Tom Cross cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Grossed $509M — a 17.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 10 years ago.
3392+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Damien Chazelle, shot by Linus Sandgren. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Justin Hurwitz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Tom Cross shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and John Legend carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Here's to the fools who dream.".
9IMDB entry: tt3783958 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1018,564 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
11Classified under 28 themes, including "dancing", "dance", "jazz", "musical".
12Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
Original score: Justin Hurwitz
Editing: Tom Cross
Production design: David Wasco
Costume design: Mary Zophres
Makeup / hair: Amy Lederman
VFX supervisor: Chris LeDoux
Sound: Kevin Becker
Stunt coordinator: Mark Kubr
Runtime: 129 min · 2h 9m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $509,183,536
Return: 1697% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: La La Land (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 94/100
IMDB rating: 8/10 · 759,966 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Won 6 Oscars. 246 wins & 313 nominations total

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Academy Award for Best Original Score

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Gimly2017-04-04
★ 5/10
"To me, La La Land is like religion. I see the appeal, and I would never take it away from anyone. But I would also never stand in line for it." - Jeff WInger, probably. Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal.
🌹 Rose2017-04-26
★ 10/10
A very special, memorable film that will be iconic in the years to come.
Dark Jedi2017-07-06
★ 6/10
This is definitely not a movie that I would have chosen to watch all by myself which perhaps explain why I thought it was just surprisingly okay to watch. However my girlfriend absolutely wanted to watch it so I got it. As it turned out my girlfriend had only gone by the number of Oscars and not really looked up what kind of movie it actually was so in the end I was enjoying the movie a lot more than she did. This movie is pretty much a quite classical Hollywood musical with a non too original story, nice music and dancing. In addition the cinematography is simply excellent. This is the strong point of this movie. The rest of the movie is of lesser interest to me but the cinematography is really, really good. The scene, pictured on the movie poster, were Mia and Sebastian dances and everything in the scene are dark blue tones except Mia’s bright yellow dress is so simple and yet so beautiful. Everything else about this movie is…okay. Okay acting, okay story etc. As I wrote before this is really not my kind of movie so forgive me for not being overly enthusiastic. I am sure those into these kind of movies cannot understand how anyone can give it less than a full set of stars but hey, different tastes and all that. I cannot make up my mind about ending. On one hand I am a sucker for happy endings which this one falls a wee bit short on. On the other hand I have to commend the writer/director for not taking the path of least resistance and instead putting together something a wee bit different. I did feel that a part of the movie was missing though. I would have liked to see the parts where Mia and Sebastian actually fulfilled their respective dreams. Jumping fast forward to the ending like the movie did felt a bit like they either ran out of money or they manage to misplace half the story! Anyway, I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would.