La La Land

Horrifically beautiful, they show and don't tell eachother the love that sparked their careers in the first place. After watching this I don't care for sucess without the people there who helped me dream it, the musical slideshow of what could have been will not haunt me. This uses LA, musical theatre as a medium for the selfishness of modern romance, this is a masterpiece. The depth of colour, performance, the narrative, cyclical, filmic framing was intoxicating and emotionally overwhelming. Textbook musicality, mise en scene, narrative, coming together for hyperbolic tragedy.