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    Certificate: 13+ - Drama|Romance - 27 December 2010(Australia)
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    Michelle Williams Oral Sex Scene in Blue Valentine Real with Co-Star Ryan Gosling?


    Was the Michelle Williams oral sex scene in Blue Valentine real with Co-Star Ryan Gosling? She jokes that it was.Actress Michelle Williams showed her humorous side – as she tried to start a rumour that the on-screen sex she had with co-star Ryan Gosling in their new film was for real.The Deception star appears in some steamy scenes with Gosling in their eagerly awaited new drama Blue Valentine.And in a recent interview with USA Today, she mischievously implied the two were a couple and that the on-screen sex was no act.“We had a very good time,” she joked. “We rehearsed it. A lot. We really wanted to get it right. It was a really hard day at work."Williams added that their on-screen relationship also had some benefits off-screen."I put on some weight for this movie,” the 30-year-old Shutter Island star said.“He would make me ice-cream shakes in the morning.»



















    Blue Valentine (film)


     

    Blue Valentine
    Blue Valentine film.jpg
    Promotional poster
    Directed byDerek Cianfrance
    Produced byLynette Howell
    Alex Orlovsky
    Jamie Patricof
    Executive producers
    Doug Dey
    Jack Lechner
    Scott Osman
    Ryan Gosling
    Michelle Williams
    Written byDerek Cianfrance
    Cami Delavigne
    Joey Curtis
    StarringRyan Gosling
    Michelle Williams
    Music byGrizzly Bear
    CinematographyAndrij Parekh
    Editing byJim Helton
    Ron Patane
    StudioHunting Lane Films
    Silverwood Films
    Distributed byThe Weinstein Company (US)
    Alliance Films (Canada)
    Optimum Releasing (UK)
    Release date(s)
    Running time112 minutes
    CountryUnited States
    LanguageEnglish
    Budget$1 million[1]
    Box office$12,355,734[1]
    Blue Valentine is a 2010 romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. The film premiered in competition at the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling played the lead roles as well as serving as co-executive producers for the film. The band Grizzly Bear scored the film.
    The film depicts a married couple, Dean Pereira (Gosling) and Cynthia "Cindy" Heller (Williams), shifting back and forth in time between their courtship and the dissolution of their marriage several years later.

     

    Plot

    The movie starts in the present and in clips looks back at how Cindy and Dean come together.
    Dean is a young high school dropout, working for a New York City moving company. Cindy is a pre-med student living with her unhappy parents and caring for her grandmother in Pennsylvania. Cindy and Dean meet by chance and rush into marriage after discovering that Cindy is pregnant, both knowing it is most likely from her previous boyfriend Bobby (Mike Vogel). Before the wedding, Bobby, unaware of Cindy's pregnancy, finds and assaults Dean at his job.
    This narrative of their courtship is intercut with that of a weekend some five years later regarding the dissolution of their marriage. By this point, they live in rural Pennsylvania and Dean works at painting houses while Cindy is a nurse. Though Dean is content with their life, Cindy believes he drinks too much and lacks ambition. In the hope of resurrecting their troubled relationship, Dean brings Cindy to a motel. As they go to the motel they stop off to get alcohol. As she is inside she sees Bobby and talks to him for a while. Bobby asks Cindy if she has ever cheated on her husband and she ultimately leaves after saying no. When she and Dean are in the car Cindy tells Dean about seeing Bobby and he is upset. During their trip to and at the motel they fight, but Cindy is called away early in the morning to work at the clinic. Angry that Cindy departed without telling him, Dean shows up at the clinic drunk, leading to an intense argument and violent altercation with a doctor, who fires Cindy over the incident. Dean tries to persuade her to give the relationship another chance, asking if she wants their daughter to grow up in a broken home, but Cindy says she does not want Frankie to grow up with parents who are so hateful to each other. Dean tries to embrace Cindy, but then we see him walking away from the house, though Frankie runs after him asking him to stay. Dean tells his daughter to go back to her Mom, and Dean keeps walking.[2]

    Production

    Williams was 21 when she received the script and Gosling committed to the production two years later, but filming did not begin until 2009, when Williams was 29, due to Cianfrance's inability to find financing. The director was also unable to film the "young" and "older" scenes several years apart as he had hoped, again due to lack of money.[3] The film was to be shot in California but production was moved to Brooklyn, New York and Scranton, Pennsylvania. Williams wanted to stay close to her Brooklyn home to take care of her daughter, Matilda, so the director chose Scranton due to its proximity to Brooklyn.
    I took a compass and (...) literally put one point of the compass on her house, and I drew a circle, an hour diameter around her house, and it just touched Scranton, Pennsylvania. So the next day I drove to Scranton (...) and we said, 'We're shooting here'.
    — Derek Cianfrance[4]
    Gosling and Williams improvised dialogue; the scene in which their characters wander through New York together was unscripted, for example, with the actors—who had both appeared in The United States of Leland (2003) but had not shared scenes—getting to know each other during its filming.[3] Before filming the marriage dissolution between the main characters, Gosling and Williams prepared by renting a home, bringing their own clothing and belongings, buying groceries with a budget based on their characters' incomes, filming home movies and taking a family portrait at a local Sears with the actress who played their daughter, and staging out arguments.[3][5] Cianfrance visited the actors and assisted them in building tension while remaining in character: "One night he told Gosling to go into Williams' bedroom and try to make love to her. Gosling, soundly rejected, ended up sleeping on the couch."[5]
    The film was filmed in Super 16mm and Red One. The former was used for the pre-marriage scenes and the latter was used for the post-marriage scenes.[6]
    While on the The Hollywood Reporter Director's Roundtable, Derek Cianfrance pointed out that he gave up his entire director's fee to help fund the film: "I mean, it came down to we were exactly my fee short. They paid me and I just paid it back. So I still have to pay taxes on it, you know. So I actually had to pay to make the movie."[7]

    Music

    Gosling wrote and performed some songs by himself. The band Grizzly Bear composed the score of the film. A soundtrack for the film was released by Lakeshore Records.
    One of the film's feature songs, "You and Me", which is presented as the couple's personal song, was originally recorded as a demo by a group called Penny & The Quarters for the obscure Prix Label of Columbus, Ohio in the early 1970s. It was re-released on a compilation album by the Numero Group in 2007 without the members of the group being identified.[8]

    Release

    The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival[9] and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2010.[10] In Australia, the film was released on December 26, 2010 through Palace Films.[11] In the United States, it was distributed by The Weinstein Company as a limited release on December 29, 2010.[12]

    Rating controversy

    On October 8, 2010 Blue Valentine was officially given an NC-17 rating by the MPAA for American cinemas. This was due to a scene depicting cunnilingus.[13] Gosling accused the MPAA of sexism and misogyny. "There's plenty of oral sex scenes in a lot of movies, where it's a man receiving it from a woman - and they're R-rated. Ours is reversed and somehow it's perceived as pornographic", he stated.[14][15] The Weinstein Company appealed the decision and aimed for an R without any trims to the film, believing the prior decision would significantly harm the film's potential box office take in the United States.[16] The company's appeal was successful on December 8, 2010, and the film received the desired rating.[17]

    Home media

    The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 10, 2011. Special features include an audio commentary with Director Derek Cianfrance, a making-of documentary, deleted scenes, and home movies.[18] The film has grossed $2,625,451 through US DVD sales.[19]Reception

    Critical response

    Blue Valentine has received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 88% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 180 reviews, with an average score of 7.7/10. The consensus reads "This emotionally gripping examination of a marriage on the rocks isn't always easy to watch, but Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling give performances of unusual depth and power."[20] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 81 out of 100, based on 42 reviews.[21]

    [edit] Accolades

    In 2006, the script won the Chrysler Film Project, a competition that awards cash to an outstanding new feature film director overseen by Independent Feature Project.[22]
    AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)Result
    Academy Awards[23]February 27, 2011Best ActressMichelle WilliamsNominated
    Casting Society of America[24]2011Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Low Budget Feature – Drama/ComedyCindy Tolan, Richard Hicks (LA Casting Consultant), David Rubin (LA Casting Consultant)Nominated
    Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[25]December 20, 2010Best ActorRyan GoslingNominated
    Best ActressMichelle WilliamsNominated
    Most Promising FilmmakerDerek CianfranceWon
    Chlotrudis Awards[26]March 20, 2011Best ActorRyan GoslingWon
    Golden Globe Awards[27]January 16, 2011Best ActorRyan GoslingNominated
    Best ActressMichelle WilliamsNominated
    Gotham Independent Film Awards[28]November 29, 2010Best FilmNominated
    Independent Spirit Awards[29]February 26, 2011Best ActressMichelle WilliamsNominated
    London Film Critics Circle Awards[30]February 10, 2011Best ActorRyan GoslingNominated
    Online Film Critics Society Awards[31]January 3, 2011Best ActorRyan GoslingNominated
    San Diego Film Critics Society Awards[32]December 14, 2010Best ActressMichelle WilliamsNominated
    San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards[33]December 13, 2010Best ActressMichelle WilliamsWon
    Satellite Awards[34]December 19, 2010Best FilmNominated
    Best ActorRyan GoslingNominated
    Best ActressMichelle WilliamsNominated

    References

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    2. ^ Smith, Kyle (January 25, 2010). "Sundance 2010: A sad and lovely Valentine". New York Post. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
    3. ^ a b c Riley, Jenelle (2010-12-08). "Scenes from a Marriage". Back Stage. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
    4. ^ Longsdorf, Amy (January 18, 2011). "Hearts of darkness". The Weekender. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
    5. ^ a b Hall, Katy. "Blue Valentine: How Derek Cianfrance Destroyed Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling's Marriage". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
    6. ^ Heron, Ambrose (December 30, 2010). "Blue Valentine". FILMdetail. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
    7. ^ "THR Director's Roundtable". Youtube.com, accessed October 06, 2011.
    8. ^ "Penny, the Quarters, and where their share of the Blue Valentine quarters are". Numero Group: By The Numbers. January 18, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
    9. ^ Leffler, Rebecca (April 15, 2010). "Hollywood Reporter: Cannes Lineup". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
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