Assa vs La La Land

La La Land has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.8/10 for Assa). La La Land is the shorter watch at 2h 9m compared with 2h 33m. Assa is the older of the two (1987 against 2016). Both are drama, music, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Assa posterAssa1987 VS La La Land posterLa La Land2016
AssaLa La Land
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 7.9/10
Year19872016
Length2h 33m2h 9m
GenresCrime, Drama, Music, RomanceComedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country–United States of America
DirectorSergey SolovyovDamien Chazelle
Main castAleksandr Bashirov, Sergei Bugayev, Tatyana Drubich, Stanislav Govorukhin, Alexandr DomogarovRosemarie DeWitt, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone, Sonoya Mizuno

Synopsis

Assa

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.

La La Land

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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