MOVIE · 2010

Blue Valentine

DramaRomance112 min

Dean and Cindy are a young married couple in a modest neighborhood, and the film moves between the spark of their early romance and the strain that has settled over their home life. Ryan Gosling is Dean, whose drift and lack of ambition clash with Michelle Williams's Cindy, a nurse retreating into herself as the marriage starts to split. By cross-cutting between courtship and later years, Blue Valentine builds its portrait through ordinary moments—dancing, work, silence, arguments—that show how intimacy and resentment can live side by side.