It was not a place I’d ever thought I’d live in. “It was just this really scary place because I’d never been there before. was Speed and Volcano and The Terminator,” he laughs. “I grew up on the East Coast, and to me L.A. Rhode Island native Chazelle started writing the script more than five years ago, inspired by his own whirlwind love-hate relationship with Los Angeles. It dazzled at Venice, charmed at Telluride, makes its North American premiere today at the Toronto Film Festival, and is already expected to factor hugely into this year’s Oscars race in multiple categories. The film is heavily influenced by Jacques Demy’s bittersweet French classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, as well as Singin’ in the Rain and A Star Is Born-two Hollywood musicals unafraid to peel back the curtain on showbiz lives and loves so that the rest of us may learn from them. Boy meets girl and fantasies and hopes and dreams come soft-shoeing into their lives, buoyed by sweet original songs that give voice to these lovebirds’ emotions. He’s a jazz musician she’s a struggling actress. La La Land stars Gosling and Emma Stone as aspirational young Angelenos in love. And I’ve just informed them that the marvel of a movie-musical left me utterly devastated, reduced to a pile of cathartic tears in the darkened silence of an empty theater. I’ve just seen their film, a modern day Technicolor love story inspired by the great movie musicals of Hollywood’s Golden Age. “Well,” he offers, “you look like the pillar of strength.” Ryan Gosling meets my gaze across a long table, resplendent in a dark blazer next to his La La Land director Damien Chazelle on a warm afternoon in Toronto.
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