It’s a grand Los Angeles epic that features “mainstream” sentiments, but it’s also a subtle and idiosyncratic journey that’s almost entirely unpredictable. It’s Old Hollywood meets Jacques Demy meets “New York, New York” meets postmodern indie backlot passion. ![]() It’s the new-fangled version of a sprawling Tinseltown classic. Yet “La La Land” isn’t just old-fashioned. The simplest thing you could call it is “an old-fashioned musical” - which means, of course, that it’s a big colorful splashy cornball swoon of a movie, one that traffics in the kind of billboard emotions (Love! Sadness! Joy!) and timeless Hollywood forms (Singing! Dancing! A Lavish Freeway Production Number Done In One Unbroken Take!) that can hit audiences like a sweet shot to the heart. ![]() “ La La Land,” in theory, is a movie that needs no explanation.
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