In the way that French New Wave filmmaker Jacques Demy made the locales of «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» and «The Young Girls of Rochefort»
into workaday natural settings that were also vividly colored backdrops for
sudden bursts of
music, the Los Angeles of «La La Land» doesn't spare us the traffic jams, but it also allows its characters to open the back of a stalled truck to reveal a jazz combo.