BLUE VALENTINE di Derek Cianfrance, 2010
"I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around."
Ciò che makes the movie of Cianfrance , his second film Twelve years after onset, a very visceral personal and poignant, is the absolute universality which tells the love story between Cindy and Dean. The absence of a real narrative line launches the viewer into the midst of a glimpse of the couple's life, with no explanation, spacing out scenes of daily living at home, the breakfast, the squabbles, the school play of the little Frankie, their child to sudden flashbacks, as a counterpoint, trace their love story, the gathering, the striking of the spark, the passion burning, making it even more deep and bitter drama that slowly unfolds. Cianfrance put your camera in full-service Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling , taking a step back, doing away with any virtuosity in favor of staging devoted to realism, a director of unadorned, so leave plenty of room to the incredible performace, largely improvised on the set, the two actors. The Alchemy of torque is amazing, Gosling (who would no doubt have at least deserved a nomination as best actor in the latest edition of the Oscars) and Williams portray their characters with intense and multifaceted interpretations, in the round, being able to modulate a large spectrum of emotions with painful authenticity. Although no particular stylistic flashes then, the director prepares a film emotionally powerful, reliable, in addition to the skill of its actors, the delicate soundtrack Grizzly Bear, great indie band from Brooklyn and the beautiful photography Andrij Parekh . Adopting the original but not too found of the two differently colored anime film, this dark and dramatically poignant, painted with cool tones of blue and gray funeral, flashbacks with those of a hot romance soon blossomed, Parekh With this solution yield as undeniably effective in its simplicity contributes greatly to the trivial stunning visual quality of the film. Another of the reasons why the film is so successful lies in the skill with which Cianfrance and the two co-writer have been able to balance the male and female (although, as a man, I have identified with more deeply into Dean), without take the side of one of two characters, able to represent the dynamics of a couple in an authentic way. The real strength of Blue Valentine however, is the room for maneuver left to the viewer, the story is so "common" which is really easy to empathize and to fill all the holes in the narrative fabric with their own experience, making the vision experience emotionally compelling. Courageously choose not to wink at romantic mainstream cinema, Cianfrance has managed to achieve one of the most painful but brutally honest portraits of a love story, a journey equally heartbreaking and beautiful from the tender opening words to the wonderful titles tail.
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