Written and directed by Damien Chazelle, the musical “La La Land” tells the love story between an aspiring actress, Mia, and a jazz musician, Sebastian. Nominated for 14 Oscars in 2017, equaling only “Eve against Eve” and “Titanic”, “La La land” and a tribute to Hollywood, to Los Angeles where dreams and reality mix until they become indistinguishable. Hence the name of La La Land, the distant and evanescent land, which lives within each of us and which takes shape in the final ten minutes of the film.
This is why, in our opinion, the finale of La La Land can be considered a masterpiece of world cinema. Because it is an open ending
True art does not give univocal answers, it does not close doors, it does not circumscribe borders. True art opens us to the world and to the pluralism of its voices, to all possible universes. And just what the ending of La La Land gives us, the possibility of the “if”, to live and travel on distant but parallel planes. In the last ten minutes of the film, Mia and Sebastian are given the opportunity to reshuffle the cards, to relive an ending different from the one they have chosen. Thus, on the notes of their song, a journey through time and space begins, where viewers are catapulted into that possible world where Mia and Sebastian have chosen to put love before ambition. Where nothing stands between the protagonists and their happy ending.The speech on the love of a father to his son in the film “Call me by your name”
An invitation to surrender to love, to its strength, but also to the pain of loss, because it is only by going through mourning that young Elio can come back to love Because it pays homage to old Hollywood musicals
Those final ten minutes of the film can be considered like a short film. A film within a film that comes to life from a game of mirrors and references, with reference to the great musicals in the history of cinema. From Cinderella to Paris , when Mia – like Audrey Hepburn – holds colored balloons in her hand in front of the Arc de Triomphe, in Balla con mewhere Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell dance on a starry stage, up to the dreamy atmospheres of the Moulin Rouge , when Satine and Christian dance to the notes of Your Song twirling in the starry sky of Paris. Why La La Land is delicate
When Mia and Sebastian meet again after years, our hearts too drop. But, instead of exasperating our emotion, Chazelle lowers the spotlight and delicately takes us into a dreamlike, light and enchanted dimension. Where distances cancel each other out, in a suspended dimension, which alternates cheerfulness and romanticism. As only true masters can do, emotion is not induced, but only suggested. Chazelle does it with wisdom and delicacy, playing with those blue night lights, the dreamlike scenographies and – obviously – the music that calls us on a journey into the world of feelings, but also of uncertainty. Where the line between what has been and what could have evaporated to leave us alone in the face of the fact that we don’t need a happy ending, that what is authentic flows between two people goes far beyond a happy ending. This is exactly what we see in that last look of Mia and Sebastian.
