La La Land

Aspiring actress Mia and jazz pianist Sebastian fall in love in Los Angeles while both chasing their dreams. Their love is electric but as each finds the success they have been working toward the cost to their relationship becomes clear. Damien Chazelle’s modern musical is simultaneously a dazzling homage to Hollywood’s golden age and a bittersweet honest story about the sacrifices that passion and ambition demand. The final wordless sequence — what might have been — is one of cinema’s most beautiful and quietly devastating endings.