A Lovely Dream

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2017)

La Land is a film that was made by the passion for movies and evokes the same love to the public. Damien Chazelle's dream project is replete with gender references, all perfectly incorporated, ranging from a narrative structure to a simple touch on a post. Here is the heart who leads the story. The direction of Chazelle is creative and daring, giving preference to long plans, the mise en scene is vivid and the camera is active, always looking to float around the scene and characters, and the dance and music scenes are impeccable.
But the soul of the film is in Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Gosling has an extremely dedicated work, including the piano. He injects different layers to the character, transiting very well between drama, comedy, romance and sarcasm, and that leaves the public fallen in love with Sebastian. And Stone (probably the most wonderful thing in this lovely movie) creates a vibrant Mia. A performance with explosions of feelings and that exceeds the limits of the screen and reaches the heart of the viewer in full, leaving us with each new frame more and more in love with it. The rest of the cast acts correctly, but without individual highlights.
The technical part is perfect. The cinematography is inventive, and printing Technicolor's dream-colors and presented in Cinemascope makes the film an event. The vast costumes and the detailed production design help create an intense, fluid, and euphoric world. And the soundtrack and the songs (which could be more) are incredible, they are remarkable compositions that help to punctuate the emotions of the scenes and that help to extract excellent moments of the protagonists.
The few problems of the film, like the abandonment of some elements that were interesting and abrupt changes of feelings, do not change the fact that La Tierra is a masterpiece. A masterful, harmonious, exciting, brave and daring film, with captures the essence of what it truly is to fall in love with the movies. A movie for a lifetime.