Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine
“ A Love Story. ”
CINEMA2010-12-26
DIGITAL2010-09-26
RegionUS
Runtime112 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A raw, unflinching look at love’s tragic entropy, contrasting youthful infatuation with the agonizing death of a marriage.”
“A raw, unflinching post-mortem of modern love cross-cutting between youthful passion and bitter domestic dissolution.”
“A raw, unflinching look at love’s tragic entropy, contrasting youthful infatuation with the agonizing death of a marriage.”
Storyline
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
DIRECTOR / Director
Derek Cianfrance
KEYWORDS
depressiondancingnursepennsylvaniausalove at first sightpregnancyclassroommarriagebridgedysfunctional familyalcoholismlovedivorcenonlinear timelineshockingabortionstudentbroken marriageromantic
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