Blue Valentine is a 2010 American romantic drama film that premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It is written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, and co-written by Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne. The movie stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. The film was shot on shaky cam technique throughout, giving it a raw and realistic tone.
Blue Valentine is an intimate, shattering portrait of a disintegrating marriage. 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.
Released by The Weinstein Company, the film is rated R for graphic sexual content and other images. The Blue Valentine is set to be one of the best end of the year movies.
Blue Valentine is set to capture our hearts on December 31, 2010.