Hollywood traditionally makes slapstick romantic flicks which are high on crudeness and college humour.
Blue Valentine is truly a remarkable performance driven film about two individuals. An unknown director Derek has come up with simple storytelling experience and has extracted the best out of his limited resources.
Dean (Ryan Gosling) & Cindy (Michelle Williams) play a married couple at rural Pennsylvania with a daughter named Frankie. Cindy is a nurse and Dean works as a painter.
The film inter cuts between their young romance courtship days and the troubled marriage of the present. The juxtaposition of the scenes depicting their happy days of love and bitter arguments of today is done with tact.
The relationship goes downhill day by day as Cindy is totally engrossed in family chores with Dean not contributing at all.
One fine day , to resurrect their lost fascination , Dean takes her to a motel where they end up in an argument.
Dean is drunk big time & it results in a violent fracas at Cindy's clinic. The conclusion of the film is really despondent & despairing.
The performances of the couple are extremely natural and uninhibited.Michelle Williams is one of the talents to watch out for and truly deserved the Oscar nod.
Ryan Gosling is indeed a good actor and can be seen as a bright star in the making.
“How can you trust your feelings if they disappear?” Cindy asks.
A Tragic Side of LOVE!
Rating : 3.5/5.0
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