A passion project isn't something that we hear much of, especially in mainstream Hollywood nowadays. While every other production is created by some novel, comic or random board game, there's a few original pieces that really stand out from the pack. It injects that fresh air into the smog of Hollywood, refreshing us even if for a brief moment in time. That's what Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine" is, at least for myself. Cianfrance's latest piece shows the gradual blossom and withering of a relationship without holding anything back. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams are in the main acting seats of this heart-wrenching story which has gained Oscar buzz ever since it first premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.Now on the opening weekend of this film's limited release, Derek Cianfrance's twelve-year long "quest" finally makes it's satisfying end. But what do y! ou do next after you've finally completed your dream project? "This movie, I've dreamed about it for so long, and now it's actually a reality. I think the question is what do you do when your dreams come true? The answer is you keep dreaming."
"Blue Valentine" embodies a deeper look into the relationship of Cindy (Williams) and Dean (Gosling), one that further develops through different circumstances. However, this isn't a typical Hollywood tale and is anything but rainbows and lollipops. Cianfrance didn't do it by accident, it was created like that for a reason. "I was more interested in making a film that was reflective of life and more of a film that I could relate to. To be more of a film that was about the people that I knew, people that were flawed. ""Most mo! vies are made in the image of God, they're perfect. And God is! boring because he or she is perfect. But what makes man interesting is our flaws. That's what's unique about us, what's wrong with us and beautiful. It's this kind of beautiful ugliness, this terrible beauty inside people." With that vision, and outlook on people in general, he fit Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams into the "Blue Valentine" equation. Despite a couple of scheduling set backs, he was able to get the ball rolling. Sure, the two are perfectly good actors individually, but how were they going to hold up together?
Cianfrance admits to not seeing the two together until they began shooting, but once that happened it was magical. "We were shooting the scene where he enters her house with flowers and his face is all beat up. I just put the camera in the back of the room and just watched. They just had this instant connection, this very tangible chemistry b! etween each other... All this years that I had worked with Michelle and her character, and Ryan with his character, they were now showing it to each other. To see these two people get to know each other on the screen, I felt like I was making a documentary of two people falling in love. They gave so much to the film I consider them to be co-writers."The main inspiration that Cianfrance has stated several times is from a childhood nightmare that his parents would one day get divorced. Although that unfortunately happened to him, "Blue Valentine" is anything but a recreation of those real events. "It's not a film about my parents, it's a film about my fears and struggles trying to get through my relationship. It's about young people. It's a movie about twenty-year olds dealing with the generation that came before them with what kind of model that they set for them."In the end you can think of your own reasons why events happen in "Blue Valentine," and that's what Cianfrance w! ants. There is no one right answer, no one set perception on a! relatio nship that's the right one. "There's a thousand answers in this movie for why things happen, but then again there's no answers. This movie to me is made in the image of man and it's about yearning, bewilderment and questions of love, not answers."Love is complicated, painful and wonderful all at the same time, and that's what he was able to contain in one film."Blue Valentine" is currently out in selected theaters nationwide. Check your local theater listings to see if it's playing in your area.Source: Latino Review
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