This film stays with you.

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2017)

This is a film that I will save up for viewing on those days or nights when I need to some color in my life, or some sweetness, but I don't want to search for those things. I just want them to be delivered to me, right up there on the screen (or on my computer, or DVD player).
First viewing, I did not particularly like 'La La Land.' Watching people dance - eh, I've seen better. My attention wanders. I'm checking e-mail. I'm thinking that Emma Stone is no great beauty. I'm wondering how it is that these two, Stone and Gosling, are going to 'carry' this movie.
They do - they make this movie work. Emma Stone looks like - and becomes - a plucky film star wannabe. Ryan Gosling looks like - and becomes - a musician. He learned to perform the jazz pieces, no need for faking it, without, amazingly, starting out an accomplished pianist.
I don't think I appreciated how much promise there was for their powerful romance until they exchanged a certain glance.
This is a very very LUSH 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg' type film, in my opinion. Can Los Angeles look any more beautiful?
'La La Land' does not match the romantic dramas of the 30s and 40s. Emma Stone does not have the inner tenderness that peeks through the cool exterior of a Bette or a Joan. She does convey something fresher, though, of a youthful actress today.