Writer/director Damien Chazelle’s dizzying follow-up to his sophomore smash Whiplash is a delightfully effervescent musical love letter to the city of Los Angeles, a candy-colored triumph about the ups & downs of following your dreams. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone illuminate the screen, and each other, as they sing and dance through success and heartache.
“Chazelle has reinvigorated the big-screen musical by embracing the present while paying tribute to the past, by balancing irony and innocence, novelty and nostalgia.” – Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
“Chazelle has assembled a vibrant, infectiously hummable pastiche of musical and cinematic styles – an entrancing ode to the glories of cinema past as well as a heartfelt expression of faith in the medium’s future.” – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
“La La does nothing less than jolt the movie musical to life for the 21st century. You leave exhilarated by Damien Chazelle’s nonstop inventiveness, dazzled by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and thrilled how they made movies magic again.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
