Ryan Gosling's 'Lost River' at Cannes: When critics attack...
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The Cannes Film Festival is somewhat unique in that its audiences feel entitled — obliged, actually — to boo the crap out of films that don't live up to their collective expectations, whatever those might be. On Tuesday, Ryan Gosling unveiled his directorial debut, Lost River, "a modern day fairytale [set] against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city," and the immediate response was harsh. Boos reportedly drowned out the applause, and some unimpressed critics and journalists quickly took to Twitter to express their antipathy in a contest of colorful language. Grantland's Wesley Morris is currently the clubhouse leader on denigrating the film, writing, "If a $200 haircut and $900 shades were given lots of money to defecate on Detroit, the result would be Ryan Gosling's directing debut."
Not everyone was so cruel. IndieWire's Anne Thompson tweeted, "Impressive impressionistic well-wrought debut for with Lost River. Very !"
Lynch and Gosling's Drive director, Nicolas Winding Refn, seem to be the names most mentioned as influences on Lost River, which stars Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker (Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.), Saoirse Ronan, and Matt Smith (Doctor Who). Click below for some of the online reaction and the film's first teaser trailer – which, if nothing else, captures some of the WTF that seems to be sprinkled throughout the film's reception.
If a $200 haircut and $900 shades were given lots of money to defecate on Detroit, the result would be Ryan Gosling's directing debut.—
Wesley Morris (@Wesley_Morris) May 20, 2014
NW Refn taught his padawan Ryan Gosling well. If you like that sort of thing you'll like LOST RIVER. Personally, I'm mixed. #cannes2014—
Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman) May 20, 2014
Ryan Gosling's directorial debut LOST RIVER is like the residue of a collision between GUMMO & TWIN PEAKS. No, really. #cannes—
(@erickohn) May 20, 2014
Yeah, LOST RIVER's inchoate and indulgent, but at least Ryan Gosling's interested in visuals and cribbing from edgier filmmakers. #cannes—
Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) May 20, 2014
Who knew? His directorial debut Lost River suggests inside Ryan Gosling a new David Lynch has been waiting to get out.—
Gregg Kilday (@gkilday) May 20, 2014
LOST RIVER: Unholy Motors. Gosling's Motown fantasy blitzes eye & mind. Carax/Lynch honored, audience baffled, but that's OK. #Cannes2014—
Peter Howell (@peterhowellfilm) May 20, 2014
Ryan Gosling's Lost River is a conceited clunker – and yet there are great images and mad energy. Review up later #Cannes2014—
Peter Bradshaw (@PeterBradshaw1) May 20, 2014
Lost River: Ryan Gosling confuses 'making film' with 'assembling Tumblr of David Lynch & Mario Bava gifs'. Dumb-foundingly poor #Cannes2014—
Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) May 20, 2014
Ryan Gosling's directing debut: let's see God forgive this…—
Jonathan Romney (@JonathanRomney) May 20, 2014
Anyone who loved Only God Forgives should love Ryan Gosling's LOST DRIVER. Swap Bangkok for swampy America and it's basically the same film.—
Dave Calhoun (@davecalhoun) May 20, 2014
I loved 'Only God Forgives' — hilarious! — and Gosling's 'Lost River' is driving people similarly insane. Can't wait! bit.ly/1jRbVq0—
Jordan Zakarin (@jordanzakarin) May 20, 2014
Cripes. Ryan Gosling's Lost River is a lurid mash up of Lynch, Refn and Edward Hopper. In a bad way. #Cannes2014—
Kate Muir (@muirkate) May 20, 2014
Impressive impressionistic well-wrought debut for #RyanGosling with Lost River. Very @DAVID_LYNCH!—
Anne Thompson (@akstanwyck) May 20, 2014
Nicolas Winding Refn's influence is clear in Gosling's approach, but he has a voice and a vision of his own as a director. #Cannes2014—
Joe Utichi (@joeutichi) May 20, 2014
LOST RIVER: Blue Velvet Of The Southern Wild. A pile-up of Gosling's influences & ideas: not good, as such, but not boring #cannes—
(@olilyttelton) May 20, 2014
Gosling's LOST RIVER a first-rate folie de grandeur. Echoes of Argento, Korine, Lynch, Malick in a tedious allegory of Detroit as ghost town—
Scott Foundas (@foundasonfilm) May 20, 2014
Cannes so far lacks a film-maudit crapocalypse. LOST RIVER just supplied it. All Gosling's pet Lynch films, filtered through Refnvision.—
Tim Robey (@trim_obey) May 20, 2014
Lost River – Fairy tail-esque mind fuck unlike anything else. Another death of the American dream metaphor, like an unshakable nightmare.—
Alex Billington (@firstshowing) May 20, 2014
In all my years at Cannes, I've never been lost in a nightmare like this. So props to Gosling for originality, but it's just too fucked up.—
Alex Billington (@firstshowing) May 20, 2014
Ryan Gosling's LOST RIVER is a "film maudit crapocalypse": blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/los… http://t.co/38NBt5QEZL—
Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) May 20, 2014
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