La La Land
“Here's to the fools who dream.”
2016 | PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy · Drama · Romance · Music
4.5of 5
1 review
One review so far — the second is where the argument starts.
How the fandom split
0.5★5.0★
Synopsis
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- The Cost of AmbitionThemeMia and Sebastian each get the career they wanted and pay for it with the other; the closing sequence prices the road not taken without pretending it was ever available.
- The Rehearsal RoomMotifAudition rooms, a club stage, an upright piano in a cramped apartment: the film keeps returning to plain rooms and shoots them as unsparingly as it shoots the fantasy numbers.
jazz / los angeles / musical / dream / audition
Credits
- Director
- Damien Chazelle
Box office · USD, worldwide
×14.9return on budget
Budget
$30.0M
Revenue
$447.4M
