Year: 2013
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
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Review: Criticism has been too hard on this film. Has a lot of violence, a strange slow films presented at Cannes Film Festival since its inception, but every time the movie pushed the boundaries of violence while his own style, most critics crazy and sometimes shouting screening, even leave the theater before the end and call it outrageous. This film, along with the Anti-Christ is the perfect example of the kind of scandal that took place in Cannes for reasons.First pretty dumb all, forget the drive. If you know Nicolas Winding Refn and style as it is so you will enjoy this movie, but if you only see the drive and thought it would be in the same style (because of the same actors, the same cinematography, the same style of music ...) I believe you will be disappointed. Trailers can give this impression, but the film is very different. Director has made other films like this, but they have a very large crowd. His work is widely known by cinephiles, the luxury and intellectuals interested in the analysis of film (in general of course). His first drive was a great success and also his first film as foregåri American, starring the world-famous star (Gosling) and go deep into the message while maintaining a style that is more specific than the other films. Here Refn feels much more philosophical, and return to the original style of directing movies like Valhalla Rising: great visuals, slow-bonding action scenes looked a little apart from each other, in-depth character development, little dialogue, extreme violence mixed with soft and / electro or trance music ... all are here to deal with philosophical, deep, hard sciences such as revenge,, the mother / child relationship is good and bad, etc. .. When it comes to acting Gosling did not disappoint, however, not this time Refn wants to do the opposite which he did in Drive: shows character flaws. Also, even if he does not pull off a very convincing performance, Kristin Scott Thomas is surprisingly interesting and gives character dimensions are far more real than it could have been (because most of the time, now, r a woman should play a badass drug lord) . But saving the best for last, Vithaya Pansringarm, actor I do not really know until you know, play fantastic in the role as the mysterious villain, and really surprised me with the quality of the game. He fully understands the atmosphere the film and make his character feel mysterious and fascinating.To sum this up is very atmospheric, deep movie with good actors / actresses and dealing with difficult and serious themes, with some philosophical analysis perhaps, but definitely not in the style of Street, although it has some similarities with that.
