flaviapedia’s review published on Letterboxd:
my dream just came true.
I watched my all time favorite movie La La Land in an open air cinema after Damien Chazelle presented it on stage and talked about it with us for an hour.
No other movie will ever be so important to me
as this one. I graduated in cinema with a 250 pages of dissertation about the analysis of La La Land, starting from the origin of the musicals to Chazelle's homages to the genre. I put my soul in it cause that's what this movie means to me.
Every single line, every beat, every dance step, every glance moves something indescribable inside me, a natural force that makes me feel alive and constantly reminds me why I love cinema and why I'll always be devoted to it. Everything in this movie is pure and stratospheric cinematic magic, like Planetarium (or what I call the live action of sleeping beauty) or Epilogue, where the audience is profoundly transported in an oneiric dimension from which it doesn't want to leave.
Chazelle not only gave birth a new kind of musical that sums up 90 years of history of musicals, but he also created the most touching, dreamy, heartbreaking, unconditional and intense love story of all time (and not just between Mia and Sebastian but also between them and their passions). La La Land teaches that if you have a wild passion for something, you have to persevere, never stop dreaming and fight til the flame inside your heart is burning. That's why I consider this movie as an essence of what I am, cause that's what I'm already doing everyday to keep my dream of working in the cinema industry alive and possible.
Moreover, here's to the fools who dream, right?
and I always have been one of them.
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