Blue Valentine

An intimate, poignant and shattering portrait of a disintegrating marriage.

On the far side of a once-passionate romance, Cindy and Dean are married with a young daughter. Hoping to save their marriage, they steal away to a theme hotel. Years earlier, when they met and fell in love, they were full of life and hope.

Moving fluidly between these two time periods, the story unfolds like a cinematic duet whose refrain asks, "Where did their love go?" Framing the film as a mystery whose answer lies scattered in time (and in character), an elegant set of dualities is constructed: Past and present, youth and adulthood, vitality and entropy.