{"id":5133,"date":"2017-02-15T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:02:15","slug":"la-la-land-a-musical-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/la-la-land-a-musical-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abLa La Land\u00bb, a musical masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema screens are currently showing a film that leaves no one indifferent, and which can even represent a single episode in a lifetime. La La Land<\/em>, a musical comedy, but also a musical masterpiece, enchanting and existential.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

First and foremost, a musical masterpiece. In this feature-length film by Damien Chazelle, music is not a sound dimension added to the rest, a feature among others in the film: it is the central theme. Both object and subject, the music in Justin Hurwitz composes the very essence of La La Land<\/em>. The music is no longer an outgrowth of the film; the film becomes an outgrowth of the music. The two protagonists, Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), fade into the background, and evolve only in the context of a veritable eulogy of jazz - the same eulogy that Boris Bian managed to achieve in literature, and that Damien Chazelle has just achieved in film. Surrealism is another thing these two geniuses have in common.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n