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La La Land

2016Film

Chazelle's Los Angeles musical. Nostalgia for the movies as a meditation on compromise.

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Mia and Sebastian on the observatory platform

Vertigo (1958)

The Griffith Observatory sequence, where the couple float above the planetarium, is Chazelle's direct homage to Vertigo's dream-space. Both sequences literalise romantic idealisation as a failure to see the actual person.

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