2023-09-04 19:33:23
by Maurizio Porro
Damien Chazelle’s 2016 film an elegy about life’s expected or unexpected failures, right up to the melancholy grand finale
Italian viewers are divided into two categories: those who don’t like musicals because they can’t get over the fact that while he’s talking, people can suddenly start singing (and we are the country of melodrama!); those who like this convention, recognizing the need for escapism and unreality. On the wave of that sentimental fantasy that made the fortune of masterpieces such as Singing in the rain, My Fair Lady, Variety show, a star is born, Damien Chazelle in 2016 decides to resurrect the genre with La La Land, consecrated land of fantasy, of LA dreams that he will then shoot down in Babylon.
The film was a resounding success everywhere, earning 6 Oscars out of 14 nominations (only Eve against Eve and Titanic had these numbers), 7 Golden Globes and the Volpi Cup to the good Emma Stone at the Venice Film Festival, where Chazelle is president of the jury these days. Her film, crackling with choreography and emotions, a love story in which Mia is an aspiring actress who works in the Warner Bros cafeteria thinking of Casablanca, and Sebastian a promise of jazz who would like to form a group and open a club.
Between illusions and disappointments, arrivals and departures, promises and missed appointments, the two consume their youth between musical numbers that remain in history, the one among the cars stuck on the road or the one that Stone performs with her companions. Between the references to the glorious past of Hollywood (the film that will see Burnt Youth) and the impossibility of those miracles being repeated today, the film is an elegy on life’s expected or unexpected failures, up to the melancholy grand finale like Splendor in the grass. Everything that is calculated anachronistic, but still seductive for the romantic charge that it carries with it and for the fascinating skill of Stone and Ryan Gosling, today for all Ken.
La La Land by Damiel Chazelle, 2016, Sky channel 302, Tuesday 5 September at 9.15 pm
September 4, 2023 (change September 4, 2023 | 19:32)
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