Ryan Gosling’s crooning set the tone for the first trailer for Damien Chazelle’s musical romance La La Land. Now, Emma Stone takes a turn, showcasing a lovely singing voice of her own with the bittersweet tune “Audition” in a dreamy new teaser for the film, in which Stone plays an actress who meets a jazz pianist while struggling to make it in Los Angeles.
Despite the modern-day setting, the trailer has a classic musical look—that yellow dress!—as well as an ethereal atmosphere, something Chazelle has named as one of his goals for the film. “I’d like to make a contemporary musical about LA, starting with the LA we know but slowly building to a vision of the city as romantic metropolis—one that is actually worthy of the dreams it inspires,” Chazelle has said. “I’d like to make a musical about the way LA’s peculiar rhythms can push its residents to the edge of their emotions.”
The film co-stars John Legend, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt, and J.K. Simmons. La La Land will premiere at the Venice Film Festival before arriving in theaters Dec. 2.
