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MOVIE REVIEW: Blue Valentine
Written and directed by Derek Cianfrance
Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams
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Neither is at fault, in this case, and Cianfrance, in only his second feature film, wields all the storytelling devices of cinema – the tight, character-based camera; the music that emanates from and informs the story as well as the soundtrack; the different film stocks; the color palette; and the non-linear narrative that tells more than any straightforward plot could – in the service of this compelling investigation of the impossibility of love and marriage with the confidence of a swaggering veteran. A must-see.
Seth Rogovoy is Berkshire Living’s award-winning editor-in-chief and cultural critic.