City of Stars

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2017)

La La Land is a wonderful musical movie that tells the story of Mia (played by Emma Stone) and Sebastian (played by Ryan Gosling) and how they follow their dreams while also falling for one another.
This movie reminded me of the musicals I saw when I was little (since I haven't watched one in years) and why these kind of movies are so lovely. The performances are on spot and of high quality, really gave me the sense of realism. Also the soundtrack is marvelous with songs like "City of Stars", "A Lovely Night", "Another Day of Sun" or "The Fools who Dream". The cinematography was a delight... so many wonderful pictures and the mood that they were shot on gave the movie more realism (as if it didn't have enough already). The story was good... but sometimes felt a little bit sudden. And this is my only issue with the movie. There were some scenes that just happened without some good context to them... and I was like: "ok how did we get here?" but it didn't bothered me so much so that it could ruin the experience I had with this movie. Also there moments in which I was like: "This is gonna happen next!" Buy again it didn't bothered me or made me feel I was wathing a predictable movie. The execution was what made me enjoy it, even though some scenes were predictable. There was even some comic relief in it but it never seemed forced or in there just for the sake of being in there (like most of the recent Marvel movies). There is a scene at the end that will make most people cry... no spoilers here... I almost did and it was so surprising to see this type of scene done like it was done here, in a musical movie but it worked wonderfully to enhance the heart that this movie had.
Overall a wonderfull movie that I longed to see it for quite some time now since it won 6 oscars this year. I would highly recommend it to musical movie lovers and to anyone who wants to watch a movie with good story and good acting by both the leading actors. 10/10.