Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper occupy the two halves of an operatically ambitious film that sees director Derek Cianfrance making a bid for the auteur league
Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance enjoyed success on a big scale with his small-scale breakthrough movie: Blue Valentine, the story of a claustrophobically unhappy relationship between a married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now he has opened things up and let rip with an operatically ambitious picture, starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a stunt-bike rider, and Bradley Cooper as an ambitious young police officer, Avery. It's a blue-collar drama-thriller of cops and robbers, fathers and sons; a tale of class, fate, biology and destiny, superficially in the manner of Dennis Lehane, and concluding with an explosive coincidence measuring 978 on the Thomas Hardy Richter Scale.
Talking about this movie on the way out with other journalists, I discovered that some felt its...
Three years ago, Derek Cianfrance enjoyed success on a big scale with his small-scale breakthrough movie: Blue Valentine, the story of a claustrophobically unhappy relationship between a married couple played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Now he has opened things up and let rip with an operatically ambitious picture, starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a stunt-bike rider, and Bradley Cooper as an ambitious young police officer, Avery. It's a blue-collar drama-thriller of cops and robbers, fathers and sons; a tale of class, fate, biology and destiny, superficially in the manner of Dennis Lehane, and concluding with an explosive coincidence measuring 978 on the Thomas Hardy Richter Scale.
Talking about this movie on the way out with other journalists, I discovered that some felt its...
- 4/12/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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