Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's 'La La Land' to Open Venice Film Festival
La La Land, directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, will open the 73rd Venice Film Festival this year. The throwback to the golden age of Hollywood musicals will make its world premiere on August 31 in competition.
“La La Land is a film that does not merely reinvent the musical genre, it gives it a brand new start,” said Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera. “If Whiplash was the revelation of a new filmmaker, La La Land is his definitive, albeit precocious, consecration among the great directors of Hollywood’s new firmament,” he added.
The film is produced by Lionsgate, in collaboration with Black Label Media, Gilbert Films, Impostor Pictures, and Marc Platt Productions.
La La Land was written prior to Chazelle doing Whiplash, and is described as an old fashioned musical set in contemporary Los Angeles, and focuses on a love story between a jazz pianist and an aspiring actress.
Source: Deadline
