29-04-15 11:44 h – Source: Het Parool
Still from the film © Lost River
Review
In Lost River create a Canadian and a Belgian an American myth, in which the effects of the credit crisis of 2008 have a dark, apocalyptic dimension.
The Canadian is debuting director and screenwriter Ryan Gosling, which as an actor acquired a star status; The Belgian is the talented cinematographer Benoit Debie, which gives the film an elegant infernal grandeur.
One week only
After a controversial negative reception at Cannes last year and a marginal release in the United States, Goslings debut gets a remarkable treatment of the Dutch distributor The film can be seen just a week in theaters. They call it a one week only release, but this attempt to promote the dumping of the film as an exclusive event, does not conceal that one apparently does not trust.
Is there something fundamentally wrong with Lost River? Not exactly. And certainly not with a display on a large canvas, where the images of Debie professionals to come into their own. The cameraman was rather impressed with his photographic approach in Irreversible, Calvaire, Innocence and Spring Breakers, and packed in Lost River matchless with night scenes and atmospheric chiaroscuro akin to painting.
Debt
In the murky world Gosling focuses on a debt-ridden single mother, her two sons and their neighbor, which in the impoverished and largely dilapidated town Lost River to go under threat. They carry names like Billy Bones and Rat, are attacked by a villain called Bully, and living between abandoned and partly overgrown ruins, which Gosling in and around the bankrupt US city of Detroit did.
The linear screenplay lacks depth, but simply as a fairy tale metaphor for America after the mortgage bubble was hanging completely off balance. Gosling adds bizarre genre film elements to it and grabs it back on Japanese SM-brac, Italian horror movies and the French Grand Guignoltraditie, where he mixes burlesque shows with theatrical bloodbaths.
The Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, which Gosling in Drive and Only God Forgives directed, it will undoubtedly be viewed with approval. It can not be ruled out that Gosling was looking at his personal movie collection and found inspiration. That explains why Lost River sounds a little like a fallen DVD box from the cult video library. Thanks to the painter’s Benoît Debie, the cabinet of curiosities still a beautiful organic whole, which is not careless or late ignore derisive
(By: Bart van der Put).
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