Blue Valentine -2010-2010 [upd] -

“You don’t know what love is. I loved you with everything I had.”

Gosling’s Dean is one of the great anti-romantic heroes. On paper, he is a loser. He dropped out of high school, works manual labor, and drinks before noon. But Gosling infuses him with a boyish vulnerability that makes his decay tragic rather than pathetic. Blue Valentine -2010-2010

The saddest part? They’d probably fall in love again if they met today. But that’s not how time works. “You don’t know what love is

Director Cianfrance argued, successfully on appeal (reducing it to an R-rating), that the scene was not “prurient” but essential. He famously stated: “It’s two people who love each other, trying to conceive a child. It’s the opposite of pornography. It’s about connection.” He dropped out of high school, works manual

Blue Valentine (2010): A Brutal, Beautiful Autopsy of Love Most romance movies end with a wedding or a passionate kiss in the rain, leaving the "happily ever after" to our imagination. Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine (2010)

They run away together for a day. Dean sings and dances for her on a street. They sleep together for the first time. It is tender and awkward.