Blue Valentine

4.00
    Blue Valentine
    2010

    Synopsis

    Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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    Cast

    • Ryan GoslingDean
    • Michelle WilliamsCindy
    • John DomanJerry
    • Mike VogelBobby
    • Ben ShenkmanDr. Feinberg
    • Jen JonesGramma
    • Maryann PlunkettGlenda
    • Faith WladykaFrankie
    • Marshall JohnsonMarshall
    • James BenattiJamie

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Observer

      Blue Valentine is about real life, warts and all, over narrative conventions like action and plot mechanics. It is brutal, compassionate, beautiful in its ugliness and one of the bravest films of the year.
    • 100

      Time Out

      Blue Valentine has a quiet, resigned wisdom to it.
    • 90

      NPR

      Cianfrance and his actors, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, have not made a cold or schematic film. They aim instead for raw emotional experience, one that's full of insight into the ways a relationship can go astray, but mostly feels like a slow-motion punch to the gut.
    • 80

      Variety

      On balance, this is a meaty, strongly realized dramatic work of considerable accomplishment.
    • 80

      Time

      The scenes cut so close to the emotional bone that you can understand why they might cause a panic amongst MPAA boardmembers, although of course, it's nothing to be afraid of: just the realism of love in its varied forms.
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Blue Valentine leaves you with the shattering vision of its truest victim-the one who'll someday look for safety in places it might not be. And the psychodrama will go on and on …
    • 80

      The New Yorker

      Nothing out of the ordinary happens in Blue Valentine, and that, together with the vital, untrammelled performances of the two leading actors, is the root of its power.
    • 63

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      There's a loose, vérité vibe here, and times when both Williams and Gosling root down deep to deliver something resonant and true. But this modern-day kitchen sink drama is ultimately too painful, too labored, to care much about at all.

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