One of my most favourite cinema experiences

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2017)

This movie is not some glitzy re-humanization of being rich during The Depression. It's actually almost the opposite, a musical centered on the little people striving to succeed while enduring the ups and downs of relationships and two branches of the entertainment business, one an actress, the other a jazz pianist.
Damien Chazelle has dazzled me before. Most musicals, I can't wait for the songs to be over to hear the dialogue. Each piece had character, great choreography. Something else that helps is my love of jazz music, and I found most pieces to be "jazzy", so that earned itself some points.
This movie so deftly navigates all sorts of truth about so many elusive things that it's not worth picking a few. Just go see it, even if you don't like musicals. It will win you over.