I must confess I could not finish it and that is RARE for me. I hated the CHOICES the director made, the camera angles, the dance moves, the plot points, the Ryan Gosling character 'jazz musician' was pure phoniness. Jazz musicians are not poet-hermits, they are in constant group interchanges and complex inter-relationships. It is the very essence of the authentic jazz scene. What baffles me most is the 'energy' people seem to get from this lead balloon of a movie.