La La Land is dancing to Oscar success

It took the success of Whiplash to convince the studio to make La La Land. Now, the musical looks like being one of this year’s biggest hits, writes Helen Barlow

EVER since La La Land premiered in Venice, Damien Chazelle’s jazzy update on 1930s musicals, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a kind of latterday Fred and Ginger, has proved hard to resist.

The film has gone on to become the Oscar frontrunner and is up for seven Golden Globes on Sunday.