Bittersweet

Rating: 7/10 (20 January 2017)

The film starts in a common musical introduction, proceeds with the leads then onto the cliché of an actress and a musician trying to reach their dreams. Sound boring at first, but clearly this is a breath of fresh air for 2016. The script wasn't amazing (bland in comparison with ie. Casablanca of course) but the aspirations of both leads pulls through. The chemistry is there if you have watched their previous movies so it's quite biased. What I liked and mostly what saved the entire film (in my honest opinion) was the ending. It was a consensus of both parties to part in a bittersweet tone. The longing of what could have been was there but it is what it is, reality hits them hard. It takes the audience into a romantic fantasy only to brings us back to reality, a familiarity we can all relate to.
Stone was great. Gosling was lacking. Great film for 2016, but bland in comparison with classic musical movies.