La La Land (film)

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La La Land
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Damien Chazelle
Produced by
Written by Damien Chazelle
Starring
Music by Justin Hurwitz
Cinematography Linus Sandgren
Edited by Tom Cross
Production
companies
Distributed by Summit Entertainment
Release dates
  • August 31, 2016 (2016-08-31) (Venice Film Festival)
  • December 9, 2016 (2016-12-09) (United States)
  • December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) (Worldwide)
Running time
 128 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million[2]
Box office $6.1 million[3]

La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend and Rosemarie DeWitt. The plot follows a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. It is the third film to feature Gosling and Stone as lovers, following Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad.

The film's title is a reference to both a nickname for the city of Los Angeles as well as a euphemism for a state of being out of touch with reality. La La Land had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was released in the United States on December 9, 2016, by Summit Entertainment. The film has received widespread acclaim from critics and has grossed $6 million.

Plot[edit]

On a crowded Los Angeles highway in winter ("Another Day of Sun"), Mia (Emma Stone), an on-studio barista and aspiring actress, is distracted by her preparation for an upcoming audition, which leads to a slight moment of road rage between her and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz pianist. Her audition is spoiled when her outfit is stained by a coffee spill from a customer at work. At the same time, Sebastian is having problems paying his bills, leading to an argument with his sister, Laura (Rosemary DeWitt) before going to his next gig at a restaurant. That night, Mia's three roommates, in an attempt to cheer her up, invite her to a lavish party downtown ("Someone in the Crowd"). When Mia's car is towed, she is forced to walk back to her apartment.

Meanwhile, Sebastian is instructed by the restaurant's owner, Bill (J. K. Simmons), not to play any jazz. While playing simple variations of Christmas songs, he slips into a passionate improvisation, which is overheard by Mia walking past the restaurant ("Mia & Sebastian's Theme") and she enters to watch him play, moved by his talent. She watches on as Sebastian is fired for his disobedience. As he's walking out, she attempts to compliment his playing, but in his frustration, he coldly passes her.

Months later, Mia is at another party and notices Sebastian again, now playing as the keyboardist for a 1980s pop cover band. She playfully irks him by requesting the band to play "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls. After the gig, Mia finds Sebastian and the two of them walk together to find their cars. They both lament over being in each other's company, despite the clear chemistry between them ("A Lovely Night").

One day, Sebastian finds Mia at work and decides to take her out to a jazz bar, explaining his intense love for jazz and his aspirations of running his own jazz bar, as well as reinforcing her passion as an actress. They begin to warm up to each other ("City of Stars"). Sebastian asks her out to a screening of Rebel Without a Cause at a local theater, and she accepts. While getting ready for her date with Sebastian, Greg (Finn Wittrock), the guy she has been seeing for the last month, shows up for a scheduled date. Mia is embarrassed and goes on the double date with Greg and his brother (who is visiting from out of town), blowing off her date with Sebastian. She feels out of place at dinner with Greg and abruptly leaves in the middle to rush to the theater, just managing to find Sebastian as the film starts. After the projector jams, Mia and Sebastian finish their date at the Griffith Observatory and dance ("Planetarium").

Mia, after several more failed auditions, decides to write a personal single-actress play, So Long, Boulder City, hoping it will propel her to stardom, and Sebastian becomes a regular performer at the jazz bar, and after several dates, they finally move in together. One night, Sebastian is reunited with a high school classmate, Keith (John Legend), who offers him a chance to be the keyboardist in his jazz band The Messengers, which offers a high pay. Sebastian accepts but is dismayed when he discovers the band's more pop-oriented sound. Keith chides him for staying stuck in the past and urges him and his music to move forward. Mia attends one of their first concerts but is left bemused, knowing that Sebastian would never enjoy playing that type of music ("Start a Fire"). During the band's first tour, Mia confronts Sebastian about this, and he bluntly tells her that it's the only way he can make money while criticizing her for her lack of success as an actress. Insulted, Mia leaves and moves into the theater where she's producing her play.

On the show's opening night, Sebastian fails to show up due to a previously scheduled photo shoot with the band. Mia's show flops badly, receiving a poor reception from the handful of people in attendance. Devastated and hurt, Mia breaks up with Sebastian and moves in with her parents in Boulder City, Nevada. One night, Sebastian receives a call at the apartment from a casting director who attended Mia's play and enjoyed it, inviting her to a film audition the following morning. Sebastian rushes to Mia's parents' home to pick up Mia. Despite Mia claiming she's not cut out for acting, Sebastian gives her until the morning to make up her mind, which she eventually does. Mia is nervous about the audition, but Sebastian is wholly confident that she will land the role. Due to the avant-garde nature of the film, Mia simply has to tell a story for her audition. She talks about her vivacious aunt who lived in Paris, where the film is being set, and inspired her to pursue acting and theatre ("Audition [The Fools Who Dream]"). After her audition, she and Sebastian go to the Griffith Observatory. Confident she will land the role, he tells her that when she does, she has to give everything she's got. They discuss their relationship, and promise they will love each other forever. Mia eventually gets the role, and leaves for Paris.

Five years later, Mia is now a famous actress, and she is contently married to another man and has a baby girl with him. One night, they are both going out on a date, and when they make a detour due to heavy traffic, her husband notices a jazz bar, with music echoing on the street. They enter, and Mia realizes it is Seb's, the club Sebastian had always dreamed of opening. After one of the songs ends, Sebastian, having since left The Messengers, introduces himself and is about to play a song, but recognizes Mia in the crowd. He begins to play "Mia & Sebastian's Theme" and as he continues, Mia and Sebastian imagine a completely different life with each other ("Epilogue"), including Sebastian declining Keith's offer of joining the band and moving to Paris with Mia after she lands her audition, where they can both continue their passions and start a family of their own. The song ends, and Mia's husband asks if she would like to leave. She chokes out a "yes" and they get up to go. As she is leaving, Mia and Sebastian share a smile, happy for each other and the dreams they have achieved.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Pre-production[edit]

As a drummer himself, Damien Chazelle has a strong predilection for musical films.[4] He wrote the screenplay for La La Land in 2010 during a period in his life when the movie industry seemed out of reach.[5] His idea of the film was "to take the old musical but ground it in real life where things don't always exactly work out"[4] and to pay homage and salute people with an unrealistic state of mind who move to Los Angeles to chase their dreams.[6] He conceived the idea for the film when he was a student at Harvard University along with his classmate, Justin Hurwitz. The two explored the concept in their senior thesis through a low-budget musical about a Boston jazz musician titled Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench.[7][8] Chazelle was moved by the tradition of 1920s city symphony films like Manhatta (1921) or Man With a Movie Camera (1929) that paid tribute to other metropolises.[9] After graduating, both moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and continued writing the script but made a few modifications, including altering the location to L.A. instead of Boston.[7]

L.A., even more so than any other American city, obscures, sometimes neglects, its own history. But that can also be its own magical thing, because it's a city that reveals itself bit by bit, like an onion, if you take the time to explore it.[9]

Rather than replicating L.A. to the charms of Paris or San Francisco, he focused on the qualities and elements that makes the city distinctive: the traffic, the sprawl, and the skies.[9] The style and tone of the film was inspired by Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort, especially the latter, which was far more dance and jazz oriented,[10] and is filled with visual allusions to Hollywood classics like Broadway Melody of 1940, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Band Wagon.[11] The film also shares a certain resemblance with his previous musical work, Whiplash, in terms of character development and themes, with Chazelle noting that "they're both about the struggle of being an artist and reconciling your dreams with the need to be human. La La Land is just much less angry about it."[12] He also admits that both films reflect his own experiences as a film-maker working his way up the Hollywood ladder.[6] La La Land in particular is a story about his own experiences moving from the East Coast with preconceived notions of what L.A. would be like, "that it was all just strip malls and freeways."[9]

However, Chazelle was unable to produce the film for years since no studio was willing to finance an original contemporary musical with no familiar songs to build off a pre-existing fan base. It was also a jazz musical, which The Hollywood Reporter called an "extinct genre". He believed that since the team behind the project – he and Hurwitz – were unknown at that time, it might have made financiers dubious about the project's potential.[13][7] Chazelle somehow managed to find producers through his friends who introduced him to Fred Berger and Jordan Horowitz. With the two producers on board, the script then landed at Focus Features at a budget of around $1 million. However, the studio demanded numerous alterations to be made in the script that Chazelle felt were distinctive and pivotal to the storyline: the male lead was asked to be changed from a jazz pianist to a rock musician, the complicated opening number had to be altered, and the story's bittersweet ending needed to be dropped. Chazelle, unwilling to make such huge sacrifices, scrapped the project and moved on.[7]

Hence, Chazelle wrote Whiplash later on, which was an easier concept to sell and a less risky investment.[14] But even after the film received rave reviews and was lauded by critics at the film's premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in January 2014, Chazelle continued his efforts to bring La La Land to the big screen. He was still constantly pitching his musical to distributors.[7] Then a year later when Whiplash earned five Oscar nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Chazelle, and grossed nearly $50 million worldwide off a $3.3 million production budget, Chazelle and his project began to attract attention from studios.[13] Five years after writing the script,[15] Summit Entertainment and Black Label Media agreed to invest in the film and distribute it, along with producer Marc Platt, after studio executives were impressed by the critical and commercial success of Whiplash.[6] Liongate's Patrict Wachsberger, who previously worked on the Step Up franchise, pushed Chazelle to increase the film's budget saying that "good musicals don't come cheap".[16]

The film underwent various "permutations" over the years, according to Chazelle.[6] Initially, Miles Teller and Emma Watson were both set to star in the leads. However both stars dropped out, with the latter over a commitment to the 2017 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and the former over long contract negotiations and his prior commitment to The Divergent Series: Allegiant.[5] Chazelle also aged up his main characters, who were originally younger newcomers just arriving in Los Angeles.[7]

Casting[edit]

Emma Stone had to learn ballroom and tap dancing for her role.

Emma Stone stars as Mia, an aspiring/struggling actress working as a barista at a coffee shop on Warner Bros. lot in Los Angeles who serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions.[13] Stone loved musicals since she was young and went to see Les Misérables when she was 8 years old, saying that "bursting into song has always been a real dream of mine" and her favorite film is the 1931 Charlie Chaplin romantic comedy City Lights.[13][4] She studied pom dancing as a child and a year of ballet.[13] She moved to Hollywood with her mother at the age of 15 to pursue a career and struggled constantly to even get an audition during that year, and when she did, she was often turned down after singing or saying one line.[17] Stone borrowed a lot of real life experiences for her character, some of which were later added into the film.[12]

She met Chazelle in 2014 while she was making her Broadway debut in Cabaret. Chazelle and Hurwitz went to New York City to watch her performance on the night the actress had a cold.[13][18] The two met at Brooklyn Diner in New York City where the director outlined his vision for the forthcoming film.[19] It was only during her successful Cabaret run that Stone began talking seriously with Chazelle about La La Land and seemingly gained confidence from the show.[19] In preparation for her role, Stone watched some of the movies that provided inspiration for the film, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.[15] Stone accepted the offer because Chazelle was so passionate about the project.[19]

Ryan Gosling learned tap dancing and piano for his role. Mia's rejected audition scene was inspired by a real life event that Gosling had encountered.

Ryan Gosling plays Sebastian, a jazz pianist who makes a living by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars and has dreams of opening his own club.[13] Like Stone, Gosling also brought his own harrowing, real-life audition experiences as an artist, including one incident Stone's character endures that happened to Gosling, when he was performing a crying scene and the casting director took a phone call in the middle of his audition and was talking about her lunch plans all the way through.[13][17][20] Chazelle met with Gosling at a bar near the latter's home in Hollywood Hills when he was about to begin filming for The Big Short.[7] Chazelle cast the two immediately after Summit bought the film.[6] He said the two "feel like the closest thing that we have right now to an old Hollywood couple" akin to Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or Myrna Loy and Dick Powell.[12] The film marks the third collaboration between Gosling and Stone following Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and Gangster Squad (2013).[21] Chazelle would ask the two about their audition disasters when they were both trying to make it.[17] Both learnt how to sing and dance for the film's six original tunes.[7] Their characters have different ways of looking at art — Sebastian believes if it's great, it doesn’t matter if anyone likes it, while Mia believes art needs an audience.[13]

The rest of the cast – J. K. Simmons, Sonoya Mizuno, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt and John Legend – were announced between July and August 2015.[22][23][24][25][26] John Legend plays Keith, a successful mainstream jazz performer and a member of Sebastian's band.[13]

Singer-songwriter John Legend makes a cameo appearance in the film.

During the pre-production phase, Miles Teller and Emma Watson were both initially set to star as the leads. However, both stars dropped out, with the former pertaining to scheduling and pay and the latter over a commitment to the 2017 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.[5][27] Teller was offered to play the leading role by Chazelle when the two were in the midst of filming Whiplash in 2013. He even passed up the chance to star in War Dogs because the film would have conflicted with La La Land (although he later went on to star in the film). But one day, Teller got a call from his agent saying that Chazelle had told Lionsgate that he no longer thought Teller was "creatively right for the project" and that the director was moving on without Teller's involvement. Teller responded by texting Chazelle "what the fuck, bro?"[28] Chazelle responded by saying that "the casting of this movie during the six years it took to get made went through lots of permutations," and it was "part of the up and down of this movie: that we were about to make it, we were about to not make it, about to make it, about to not make it."[29] The Hollywood Reporter reported that Teller's exit was due to his $4 million pay demand.[30] However, Teller later rebuffed this claim saying "these publications print things so people read their article and then they say an 'unnamed source said this'. All that's bullshit."[31]

The film was choreographed by Mandy Moore and rehearsals took place at a production office in Atwater Village over the span of three to four months beginning in May 2015. Gosling would practice piano in one room, Stone worked with Moore in another, and costume designer Mary Zophres had her own corner of the complex.[13][7] Moore emphasised emotion rather than technique which Stone said was key when they shot the Prius scene.[13] To help his cast and crew get their creative mode flowing, Chazelle held screenings on the soundstages every Friday night of classical films that provided inspiration of the film, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Singin' in the Rain, Top Hat and Boogie Nights.[7]

Filming[edit]

The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange where the opening scene was shot.
The scene where Gosling and Stone's characters float into the stars was filmed at the Griffith Observatory.

Chazelle wanted Los Angeles to be the primary setting for his film, commenting that "there is something very poetic about the city I think, about a city that is built by people with these unrealistic dreams and people who kind of just put it all on the line for that."[4] From the beginning, Chazelle wanted the film's musical numbers to be filmed "head to toe," using 50s style, wide-screen CinemaScope, and performed in a single take, like those of the works of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.[19] Principal photography on the film officially began in the city on August 10, 2015,[32][33] and was filmed in more than 60 L.A. locations, including downtown trolley, houses in the Hollywood Hills, Angels Flight, Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, Grand Central Market and Watts Tower with many scenes shot in one take. It took 42 days to complete shooting, finishing in mid-September 2015.[7][34][35]

The opening pre-credits sequence was the first to be shot[7] and was filmed on a closed-off portion EZ pass ramp of the Los Angeles highway connecting the 105 freeway to the 110 leading to Downtown Los Angeles in a span of two days and required over 100 dancers.[6][36] For this particular scene, Chazelle wanted to give a sense of how vast the city is.[9] The scene originally was planned for a stretch of ground-level highway until Chazelle decided to shoot it in the 105-110 interchange, which arcs 100 feet in the air. Production designer David Wasco said, "I thought somebody was going to fall off and get killed." Not every portions of the highway were blocked.[7] Chazelle compared the scene to the yellow brick road leading to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz (1939).[7]

The Angels Flight (pictured) in Downtown Los Angeles, which was shut down in 2013, was re-opened for a day exclusive for the film's cast and crew in order for shooting to take place there.

Chazelle scouted for "old L.A." locations that were in ruins or were perhaps razed. One such example is filming in the Angels Flight. The funicular had been closed in 2013 after a derailment. Attempts were made to repair and re-open the railway, but to no avail. However, the production team were able to secure permission to use it for a day. Chazelle and his crew then arranged to have it run for shooting.[9] Mia works at a coffee shop near studio lots which Chazelle sees them as monuments. Production designer, Wasco, made numerous fake old movie posters and sometimes Chazelle had to come up with names for them. He decided to use the title of his first feature, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), for one poster, which reimagines it as a 1930s musical.[9]

The six minute long Prius scene had to be completed during the brief "magic hour" moment at sunset. It took eight takes and two days to shoot it.[13] When Gosling and Stone finally nailed it, "everybody just exploded," Stone says.[19] Since Gosling and Stone were not Broadway performers, the two made a number of mistakes between takes and especially during long uninterrupted single-take musical numbers. However, Chazelle was very sympathetic towards them, understanding their lack of experience and not minding their mistakes.[15] While shooting Sebastian and Mia's first dance together, Stone tumbled over the back of a bench, but picked right up and kept on going with the scene.[15]

Chazelle spent nearly a year editing the film with editor Tom Cross and the two focused mainly on getting the tone just right which was the main focus for everyone working on the film.[7]

Soundtrack[edit]

The songs and score for La La Land were composed and orchestrated by Justin Hurwitz, Chazelle's Harvard University classmate who also worked on his two prior films.[13] The lyrics were written by Pasek and Paul.[19]

La La Land: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [37]
No. Title Performer(s) Length
1. "Another Day of Sun"   Cast of La La Land 3:48
2. "Someone in the Crowd"   Emma Stone, Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno and Jessica Rothe 4:19
3. "Mia and Sebastian's Theme"   Justin Hurwitz 1:38
4. "A Lovely Night"   Ryan Gosling and Stone 3:56
5. "Herman's Habit"   Hurwitz 1:51
6. "City of Stars"   Gosling 1:51
7. "Planetarium"   Hurwitz 4:17
8. "Summer Montage/Madeline"   Hurwitz 2:04
9. "City of Stars"   Gosling and Stone 2:29
10. "Start a Fire"   John Legend 3:12
11. "Engagement Party"   Hurwitz 1:27
12. "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)"   Stone 3:48
13. "Epilogue"   Hurwitz 7:39
14. "The End"   Hurwitz 0:46
15. "City of Stars (Humming)"   Hurwitz and Stone 2:42
Total length:
 45:50
La La Land: Original Motion Picture Score [38]
No. Title Performer(s) Length
1. "Mia Gets Home"   Justin Hurwitz 0:27
2. "Bathroom Mirror / You're Coming Right?"   Hurwitz 1:23
3. "Classic Rope-A-Dope"   Hurwitz 0:45
4. "Mia and Sebastian's Theme"   Hurwitz 1:37
5. "Stroll Up The Hill"   Hurwitz 0:49
6. "There The Whole Time / Twirl"   Hurwitz 0:44
7. "Bogart & Bergman"   Hurwitz 2:11
8. "Mia Hates Jazz"   Hurwitz 1:10
9. "Herman's Habit"   Hurwitz 1:52
10. "Rialto At Ten"   Hurwitz 1:38
11. "Rialto"   Hurwitz 0:28
12. "Mia and Sebastian's Theme (Late For The Date)"   Hurwitz 1:30
13. "Planetarium"   Hurwitz 4:19
14. "Holy Hell"   Hurwitz 0:42
15. "Summer Montage / Madeline"   Hurwitz 2:04
16. "It Pays"   Hurwitz 2:12
17. "Chicken On A Stick"   Hurwitz 1:40
18. "City of Stars / May Finally Come True"   Hurwitz, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone 4:18
19. "Chinatown"   Hurwitz 1:23
20. "Surprise"   Hurwitz 1:30
21. "Boise"   Hurwitz 1:13
22. "Missed The Play"   Hurwitz 0:36
23. "It's Over / Engagement Party"   Hurwitz 1:35
24. "The House In Front Of The Library"   Hurwitz 0:31
25. "You Love Jazz Now"   Hurwitz 0:51
26. "Cincinnati"   Hurwitz 2:06
27. "Epilogue"   Hurwitz 7:39
28. "The End"   Hurwitz 0:46
29. "Credits"   Hurwitz 3:40
30. "Mia and Sebastian's Theme (Celesta)"   Hurwitz 1:28
Total length:
 53:00

Release[edit]

La La Land had its world premiere as the Venice Film Festival's opening night film on August 31, 2016.[39][40] The film also screened at the Telluride Film Festival,[41] Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2016,[42] BFI London Film Festival,[43] the Middleburg Film Festival in late October 2016, the Virginia Film Festival held at the University of Virginia on November 6, 2016, AFI Fest on November 15, 2016.[44]

The film was initially set for a July 15, 2016, release,[45] however in March 2016 it was announced the film will be given a limited release on December 2, 2016, before expanding on December 16.[46] Chazelle admits that the change was because he felt that the release date was not right for the context of the film and since he wanted to have a slow roll out beginning with film festivals.[12] It was later pushed back a week to December 9, with the wide release still being planned for December 16.[47] Lionsgate opened the film in five locations on December 9, and is expanding to about 200 theaters on December 16 before going nationwide on December 25. The company expects the film to go fully wide by January 2017.[35]

La La Land is due for release in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2017.[48] The film is expected to be released in the Netherlands on December 22 and in Australia on December 26, with the rest of the territories planned for a release from mid-January 2017.[49]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

As of December 11, 2016, La La Land has grossed $881,104 in the United States and Canada and $4.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $5.5 million, against a production budget of $30 million.[3]

La La Land began its theatrical release with a limited release in five theaters in Los Angeles and New York City on December 9. It made $881,104 in its opening weekend, giving the film a per-theater average of $176,221, the best average of the year.[50][51][52]

Critical response[edit]

Emma Stone's performance has been lauded by critics, and is seen as a strong Oscar contender.

La La Land was met with universal acclaim, with praise aimed at Chazelle's screenplay and direction, Gosling and Stone's performances, Hurwitz's musical score, and the film's musical numbers.[53][54][55][56] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 94%, based on 174 reviews, with an average rating of 8.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "La La Land breathes new life into a bygone genre with thrillingly assured direction, powerful performances, and an irresistible excess of heart."[57] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 92 out of 100, based on 49 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[58]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone named La La Land his favorite film of 2016.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian awarded the film five out of five stars, describing it as "a sun-drenched musical masterpiece."[59] Tom Charity of Sight & Sound says "Chazelle has crafted that rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy, and as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green."[60] Diana Dabrowska of Cinema Scope wrote "La La Land may look like the world that we dream about, but it also understands the cruelty that can come out of (or undermine) those dreams; it's shot in CinemaScope, and yet it's still an intimate masterpiece."[61]

Tom Hanks praised the film, particularly its originality, and stated, "When you see something that is brand new, that you can't imagine, and you think ‘well thank God this landed’, because I think a movie like La La Land would be anathema to studios. Number one, it is a musical and no one knows the songs."[14]

Accolades[edit]

Main article: List of accolades received by La La Land (film)

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