Excellent Acting Overcomes Timeline
Reviewed by criddic2 for Blue Valentine at 2011-02-01 20:19:17
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play a couple falling in and out of love. They provide a heart-wrenching portrait of both ends of that romance, but the movie's approach to showing the change (jumping around in time) can be jarring. Unlike "500 Days of Summer," it doesn't say when the scene takes place. Eventually the actors' emotional power overcomes this and the rhythm is accepted by the viewer.