The outcome of this enchanting feature film shocked spectators the year it was released. This is the film not to be missed on television this week.
Be careful, prepare your tissues. When it was released in theaters, this critically acclaimed film amazed audiences before leaving them shocked and moved in its final minutes. This is the feature film not to be missed on television this week. In 2017, La La Land created an event in more than one way in cinema.
La La Land therefore draws on the roots of musical romantic films to depict the romance between Mia and Sebastian, who seek to make it in Los Angeles. Thanks to the undeniable chemistry of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone (they have played a couple three times in their careers), the film makes us believe in a happy ending for their story, which is unfortunately thwarted by each other's ambitions to break through. , one as a film actress, the other as a jazz pianist. The ending, bittersweet, melancholy but superb (disappointing for others), moved many spectators in cinemas and caused a lot of talk on the Internet.
Directed by Damien Chazelle, this fiction first revived a genre often unfairly mocked and considered obsolete, even though it was the heyday of Hollywood: the musical. Served by an excellent original soundtrack, La La Land is an opportunity to discover the dancing and singing talents of the two main actors, who gave of themselves for various scenes that will be remembered. With La La Land, Damien Chazelle also pays homage to a whole section of cinema, multiplying references to musical comedy classics, whether the classics of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but also The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Singing in the Rain , An American in Paris and many others.
But La La Land is unfortunately remembered for a fiasco, that of the 2017 Oscars. The film will leave with six awards, including that of Best Actress for Emma Stone and that of Best Direction for Damien Chazelle, but a mistake in envelope makes it seem, for a time only, that the feature film also won the Oscar for Best Picture. However, it was the wrong envelope that was given to the submitters, since it was Moonlight who ultimately emerged victorious. A mess that no one has forgotten, far from it!
La La Land can be seen again on television this week. Arte is broadcasting Damien Chazelle's acclaimed musical comedy this Sunday, March 24, 2024. See you at 9 p.m. on the seventh TNT channel, or in streaming on arte.tv.
