Lost River (film)
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| Original title | Lost River |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Ryan Gosling |
| script | Ryan Gosling |
| production | Ryan Gosling David Lancaster Michel Litvak Marc Platt Adam Siegel Jeffrey Stott |
| music | Johnny Jewel |
| camera | Benoît Debie |
| cut |
Nico Leunen Valdís Óskarsdóttir |
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Lost River is an American film from 2014 with neo-noir elements . In the directorial debut of actor Ryan Gosling , who also wrote the script, Christina Hendricks , Saoirse Ronan and Matt Smith act in various roles.
The premiere took place on May 20, 2014 during the 67th Cannes International Film Festival . Lost River was released in German cinemas on May 28, 2015 .
action
The small town of Lost River is transforming itself more and more into a ghost town after the economic and US real estate crisis. Single mother Billy, who lives there with her children Franky and Bones, struggles with demons as much as her children. The toddler Franky is afraid of monsters under his bed and his big brother Bones has to stand against the local clique that tyrannizes the area. On the run from the school bully Bully, he finds a way that leads him into an underwater world. In order to support the family, mother Billy has no choice but to take on work in a morbid nightclub due to financial difficulties.
criticism
"Gosling's directorial debut [...] was also considered to be one of the most eagerly anticipated films of this year. [...] While Gosling talks very sensitively about the economic and emotional needs of his protagonists, highly stylized images of urban doom weighed tons. In addition, there is the inconsistent soundtrack from Chromatics mastermind Johnny Jewel [...], who piles up sometimes 1940s numbers, sometimes 80s synth sounds, without creating a feeling of well thought-out aesthetics. […] In its best moments, 'Lost River' seems excitingly disparate , but in its worst moments the influences of Refn and especially David Lynch become abundantly clear. "
“Filmed in Detroit, the story is a kind of dark fable about the post-industrial decline of the USA and the destruction of the American dream. […] Stylistically, Gosling tries to imitate the nightmarish poetics of David Lynch or Nicholas Winding Refn. But he does not manage to tie in with the great role models; his story is too forced for that. Even his imagery with a lot of fire, water and dark eroticism does not achieve their coherence and inventiveness. "
"The plot is admittedly a bit crude: [...] [A] a single mother in an eschatological Detroit."
"Suffice to say that Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, Lost River, is the most enthusiastically derided entry so far at this year's Cannes Film Festival."
Suffice it to say, Ryan Gosling's directorial debut is the most enthusiastically derided entry at this year's Cannes Film Festival. "
“Lost River, however, is an absolute minority program. […] 'Lost River' […] is basically not a feature film at all in the usual sense. It is a feverishly assembled, completely surreal collage of pictures and small scraps of action, which is about the struggle for existence of a mother and her children. 'Lost River' could be described as a nightmare turned into a film, in which the blood flows in rivers, in which violence reigns and the gloomy images [...] only get a little light when a car or a house is on fire again. "
“Lost River wants to be a dark fairy tale for adults, a surreal feverish dream made of dense nature shots and stylized neon colors. But he does not succeed in making more of the numerous reminiscences of his role models than empty quotes without an independent vision. The story and the characters are unfortunately too flat to hold together the atmospheric and promising images. "
"Colossally indulgent, shapeless, often fantastically and unthinkingly offensive and at all times insufferably conceited."
"Exaggeratedly dissolute, without contours, often fantastic and thoughtlessly offensive and consistently unbearably self-love."
backgrounds
- The shooting took place mainly in Detroit .
- The film was originally supposed to be released with the title "How to Catch a Monster".
- For the curation and production of the soundtrack was Johnny Jewel responsible.
- After a hacker attack on Sony in November 2014 , the decision was made not to release the film in US theaters and instead to release it as a direct-to-video production in April 2015 .
Web links
- Lost River in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lost River at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Lost River at moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Lost River . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 102 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Lost River . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ A b c d Hannah Pilarczyk: Cannes diary: Friendship in the times of neoliberalism. In: Spiegel Online . May 21, 2014, accessed May 22, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Barbara Schweizerhof: high-flyer Ryan Gosling causes failure in Cannes. Abendblatt.de, May 21, 2014, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Booed Ryan Gosling's directorial debut. stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, May 21, 2014, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
- ^ Richard Corliss: REVIEW: Ryan Gosling's Lost River : Crazy Like a Rat. time.com, May 21, 2014, accessed May 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Gunther Baumann: Cannes: A surreal collage by Ryan Gosling. (No longer available online.) Kino.heute.at, May 21, 2014, archived from the original on May 22, 2014 ; accessed on May 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Stefan Knoke: Lost River - film review. Movienerd.de, April 19, 2015, accessed April 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Cannes review: Lost River - Ryan Gosling flounders with directorial debut. theguardian.com, May 20, 2014, accessed May 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Thomas Vorreyer: Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River. (No longer available online.) Spex.de, April 23, 2014, archived from the original on April 26, 2014 ; Retrieved April 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brad Miska: Ryan Gosling's 'Lost River' Won't Swim Into Theaters. Bloody Disgusting, December 31, 2014, accessed January 1, 2015 .
