Blue Valentine

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

Another character relationship drama but unlike Somewhere, some things actually happen in this film. We see parallel timelines intercut together. One starts with the couple falling in love and ends with them getting married and the other starts with them fighting and ends with them heading towards a divorce. Bittersweat much?

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling are great. They make a very real couple which means falling in love with them is easy and watching them break up is hard. A lot of the scenes feel very improvised and natural and the film is shot more like a documentary, no surprise director Derek Cianfrance is from a doco background.

It's not exactly the most uplifting or entertaining film but I believe it accomplishes what it sets out to do, depict a very realistic version of the life of a relationship, how love is created and how it can fade. My favourite part was actually the design of the end credits and the very mixed emotions it invoked. It is indicative of the film as a whole.