Dean and Cindy struggle to maintain a marriage which is rapidly deteriorating, and remember how they first met and came to be together.
Blue Valentine is according to its tagline a love story and that's hard to argue with, despite being a very bleak film. I've never seen anything else by director Derek Cianfrance but the tactic of juxtaposing the central relationship's rise and fall makes for a film that jumps from one emotional extreme to another from scene to scene. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams continue to prove themselves as actors of considerable talent, and though they are the focal point of every scene they are surrounded by capable character actors John Doman of The Wire, Ben Shenkman of Angels in America, and prettyboy Mike Vogel who's only all right. Compelling, bittersweet, very raw and honest. Not a good first date movie.
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