Hey girl, you know what they say about bad movie reviews, right? They’re just good reviews that weren’t hugged enough as children. Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, hasn’t exactly been a critical darling since its debut at Cannes last year. Time’s Richard Corliss wrote that, at the time, Lost River was “the most enthusiastically derided entry” at Cannes. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called Gosling’s first effort “colossally indulgent, shapeless, often fantastically and unthinkingly offensive and at all times insufferably conceited” and “kind of ruin-porn gothic fantasy.” And Variety’s Justin Chang jumped in on the David Fincher comparisons with this piece of critical poetry…
Had Terrence Malick and David Lynch somehow conceived an artistic love-child together, only to see it get kidnapped, strangled and repeatedly kicked in the face by Nicolas Winding Refn, the results might look and sound something like “Lost River,” a risible slab of Detroit gothic that marks an altogether inauspicious writing-directing debut for Ryan Gosling. (Via Variety)
That’s just a sampling of the negativity that has been written about Baby Goose’s first trip to the director’s chair, but now we’re all a step closer to judging for ourselves. The first trailer for Lost River has arrived, and it certainly sounds like a Fincher-esque mystery thriller that will have people scratching their finely-combed hair.
“Lost River” is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy (Christina Hendricks), a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones (Iain De Casestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves.
Hey girl, the only limit that Baby Goose follows is speed. Be safe out there.
