The film follows the journey of and Cindy (Michelle Williams) through a non-linear narrative that contrasts the hopeful, electric beginning of their relationship with the bitter, weary struggle of its end several years later. Movie Review: Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine (2010)

They met again once, years later, at a small downtown bar where a local musician played slow songs. Dean recognized Cindy by the way she smiled at a line in a song. Frankie was with her, taller now, her mouth full of adult teeth and a small smugness at how time had arranged them. They talked like old acquaintances at first, then like two people who had traveled and returned to the same shore. They did not talk much about what broke; instead they compared how Frankie liked coffee and school and the new tattoo Dean had—an old guitar, cracked but whole.

Ryan Gosling as Dean Pereira and Michelle Williams as Cindy Heller. Genre: Romantic Drama.