Story highlights 'La La Land' director Damien Chazelle says he finds the movie's bittersweet ending to be 'romantic'"To me, if you're telling a story about love, love has to be bigger than the characters," he said(CNN) Warning: This story contains spoilers for "La La Land." Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling struck some beautiful on-screen chords in the Oscar-nominated "La La Land." But by the end of the film, their relationship fell flat, a victim of two dueling ambitions. Bittersweet as it was to watch the two characters part ways with a polite smile after a chance encounter at the end of the film, director Damien Chazelle is convinced that's how it had to be. "I think I just have a thing about love stories where the lovers don't wind up together at the end; I find it very romantic."

Source: CNN February 05, 2017 16:22 UTC