Blue Valentine

Director: Derek Cianfrance
Writer: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman, Faith Wladyka
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 2010 10:58 AM
Criticwire: B+
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Synopsis: On the far side of a once-passionate romance, Cindy (Michelle Williams) and Dean (Ryan Gosling) are married with a young daughter. Hoping to save their marriage, they steal away to a theme hotel. We then encounter them years earlier, when they met and fell in love—full of life and hope. Moving fluidly between these two time periods, Blue Valentine unfolds like a cinematic duet whose refrain asks, where did their love go? Framing the film as a mystery whose answer lies scattered in time (and in character), filmmaker Derek Cianfrance constructs an elegant set of dualities: past and present, youth and adulthood, vitality and entropy. The rigor of his process is visible throughout the film. Eliminating artificial devices, he has only the truth of the characters to work with. Because Gosling and Williams bring amazing intensity and emotional honesty to their roles, the experience of connecting to these two souls becomes truly moving. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance Film Festival]

Reviews

Small Screens: indieWIRE's Top 5 Releases This Week

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News

Derek Cianfrance On His NC-17 Rated "Valentine"

Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine" made its UK debut this weekend at the BFI London Film Festival, where it was met with the resounding approval it's already found at the dozen or so festivals it has screened at since debuting in Sundance this past January. Featuring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Willi...
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Report: MPAA Overturns NC-17 Rating For "Blue Valentine" In Unanimous Decision

The controversial "NC-17" rating that the MPAA gave Derek Cianfrance's Ryan Gosling-Michelle Williams anti-romance "Blue Valentine" was overturned today, according to Deadline's Mike Fleming.
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UPDATED: Weinstein Deal for "Blue Valentine"

An acclaimed entry from the dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival, Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine," has been acquired by The Weinstein Company, a film rep confirmed this morning. The company acquired North American and other rights as the festival neared its conclusion.
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Armond White Plays Host at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards

New York Film Critics Circle Awards chairman Armond White cut a dapper figure as the evening’s host on Monday night, but he was also something of a jerk at his own show.
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Interviews

OSCARS 2011 | "Blue Valentine" Actress Michelle Williams

Back in December, Anne Thompson caught up with Michelle Williams shortly following the announcement that she nabbed a Best Actress Spirit Awards nomination for her work in Derek Cianfrance's breakup drama "Blue Valentine." Williams has since gone on to garner an Oscar nomination in the same departme...
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TIFF Talk | "Blue Valentine" Director On Long in the Works Drama

The intimate relationship drama "Blue Valentine," from director Derek Cianfrance, doesn't appear to have anything in common with anything out of Quentin Tarantino's oeuvre. But as revealed at the last session of Live at the Lounge with indieWIRE in Toronto this year, the two come from a breed of dir...
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The Blue Trio: Cianfrance, Gosling & Williams on Their "Valentine"

"Blue Valentine" is a film so vivid, so raw and close to the edge it begs the question of what we become in watching it. The fourth wall is retained, yet the membrane separating viewer and the images on screen has been stripped away. You leave the theater both shaken and elated. Nurtured by director...
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Video & Interview: "Blue Valentine" Director On the Mysteries of Love

This interview was originally published during indieWIRE's coverage of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. "Blue Valentine" director Derek Cianfrance sat down to chat with Eugene Hernandez at the Filmmaker's Lounge during the festival. Below is the interview, along with the video recording...
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O "Brother Tied," Where Art Thou? "Blue Valentine" Team Seeks to Reclaim Derek Cianfrance's Debut

There's many reasons why "Blue Valentine" director Derek Cianfrance's critically hailed first film, "Brother Tied," disappeared from view: a lack of finishing funds, no distribution offers. But he likens the situation to a story about a pet fish.
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