Blue Valentine (2010)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dean	Ryan Gosling	½
Cindy	Michelle Williams	½
Frankie	Faith Wladyka
Jerry	John Doman
Bobby	Mike Vogel
Marshall	Marshall Johnson

Review

Two of the most talented actors of their generation, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, give impressive duelling performances as a young struggling couple in this depressive dissection of a marriage which has lost its spark. There's a lot of arguing, quite a few tears, and the occasional tenderness. To put it short, a 2010 working class version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. As directed by young Derek Cianfrance, the film is a strenuous but also riveting experience, because it is told with such conviction and urgency, and because Cianfrance boasts a remarkable attention to realistic and recognizable details, even if the subject matter is as old as the history of human relationships.