Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.La La Land / Film synopsis

At the core of La La Land lies the struggle between ambition and love. Our two main characters are pursuing individual career paths: Mia as an aspiring actress, and Sebastian as a jazz musician. The film explores the challenges they face in achieving these goals, as well as the sacrifices they must make along the way.

Griffith Park Spanning more than 4,300 acres, Griffith Park is the 11th-largest municipally owned park in the U.S. After a Hollywood Hills party, Sebastian and Mia discover a spectacular view of the San Fernando Valley, where they perform the showstopper “A Lovely Night.” The sequence was filmed in one take at "Cathy's Corner" off ...

Sony Pictures Studios - Score recorded at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City.

• Follow your dreams. Even when you're at the end of your self-confidence rope.
• Your partner should be your biggest cheerleader. The protagonists in the film --played by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling -- are both chasing their dreams.
• You may not end up with the love of your life. And that's okay.

'La La Land' is about sacrifice, love, and passion. However, it's not just about doing all three things for the person you love, so you can be with them. It's about doing these three things for yourself and you being the person you wanted to be before you fell in love.

Musicals use song to open a window into the characters' emotions, but every once in a while, a piece comes along that uses the music as a mechanism to give greater meaning to the narrative. In La La Land, the music isn't a reflection of the characters' emotion, but rather, it's their passion.

Thus, the magic of La La Land is that it transports viewers to a timeless era - one that's so convincingly vintage-Hollywood that we often forget the story takes place in the 21st century.

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jazz Both La La Land and Demy's film connect utopian moments with jazz, and push the boundaries of the classical Hollywood musical in order to celebrate the music. Damien Chazelle, a serious jazz aficionado since childhood, has made the music central to both the plot and the score of his film La La Land (2016).

Justin Hurwitz Composition. The songs and score for La La Land were composed and orchestrated by Justin Hurwitz, film director Damien Chazelle's Harvard University classmate, who also worked on his two prior films.

Sebastian and Mia achieve their career goals - he opens his jazz club, Seb's; she becomes a famous actress - but at the cost of their relationship. The final moments bring them back together, in reality and in a dream sequence.