Whiplash director Damien Chazelle’s musical romance La La Land is set to open this year’s Venice film festival.
The film reunites Crazy, Stupid, Love stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and is pitched as a tribute to Hollywood’s golden age of musicals but will have a contemporary setting.
“La La Land is a film that does not merely reinvent the musical genre, it gives it a brand new start,” said Alberto Barbera, Venice artistic director, in a statement.
Gosling was most recently seen in action comedy The Nice Guys and will next be seen in Terrence Malick’s Weightless as well as Blade Runner 2.