Here are some photos of Emma Stone at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. I’m including photos of Emma at the photocall and premiere for La La Land. The premiere dress is the sparkly silver Atelier Versace, and the photocall dress is the green and pink Giambattista Valli. The photocall pics came out early in the day on Wednesday, and I made the choice not to post them immediately because I thought the Valli dress was so unimpressive. While I’m always happy to see Emma doing the film festival circuit, that dress in particular did nothing for me. But the Versace? I love it. It’s so dramatic, especially for Emma (who doesn’t always do “drama!”).

Until I sat down to write this post, I had not watched the trailer for La La Land, the film starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, which premiered last night in Venice. I honestly hadn’t paid attention to what the film was about, I only knew it involved Gosling and Stone. Then I heard that it involved singing and I was like, “Nah, pass.” So I watched the trailer and…I still feel that way.

Don’t get me wrong, Emma and Ryan are beautiful and they seem to have so much chemistry together. But I’m probably still going to give this one a pass. Is it because I’m cynical? Is it because seeing two beautiful young people fall in love whilst singing doesn’t do much for me? Perhaps I am cynical. And Emma says that younger people (not me, then) should stop falling into the Cynicism Trap. Emma told the Daily Beast:

“What I would hope young people would take away from it is, I don’t know if you remember when Conan O’Brien left his show… but he made a speech at the end of it, and he said ‘to let go of cynicism’ and that ‘cynicism was the ugliest quality’ to him. And I think something about Damien [Chazelle, the director] and what Damien created, and the hopefulness and the joy and the beauty of this medium but also this story… this movie is in no way cynical. It’s about dreaming, and hoping, and working toward something to achieve something, and I think young people have fallen into a lot of cynicism, and making fun of things, and pointing out the flaws in everything, and this movie is anything but that. So it’s a huge joy to be a part of it and show it to young people. This is what I hope young people will do—work hard to achieve their dreams and hope, instead of be cynical.”

[From The Daily Beast]

Sure. I understand that, the plea for less negativity, less judgment, less cynicism, less jaded hopelessness. The thing that always happens with me is that I think I’m so jaded and over it, then a commercial will make me cry, or I’m genuinely moved by some inspirational news story. Or I’ll meet someone truly negative, and suddenly I become the most positive person ever (“I disagree, everything is awesome!”). But will all of that help me enjoy a movie that looks hella twee?

Photos courtesy of Joe Alvarez, WENN.