Clickonline writes: "I don't really know why, maybe there's more tolerance for art cinema in a foreign language or it might even smack of something that a pretentious first time director would do to make his film seem more interesting. Not that I'm saying Gosling is pretentious, the fact that the film went down badly during its Cannes debut can even be taken as a compliment "
Sam Love writes- I have a lot of respect for Ryan Gosling. Despite initially hitting the big time with generic romance The Notebook, he quickly moved away from what could have been an endless career of shit into adventurous independent cinema, with starring roles in Half Nelson, Lars & The Real Girl and All Good Things, and more recently the brilliant Drive and not-so-brilliant Only God Forgives.
TK: Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling is set to release his directorial debut titled ‘Lost River’. His fantasy thriller stars Saoirse Ronan, Christina Hendricks, Matt Smiths and Eva Mendes.
Ryan Gosling is a decent actor but as a director will have to see this film to figure out.
FilmStage: “Ryan [Gosling] works in a very free way, he’s constantly in an artistic frame of mind,” star Iain De Caestecker recently said when it comes to Lost River, Gosling’s debut, which was just confirmed for a Cannes Film Festival premiere. The actor went on to unveil more of the plot and explain the source of the new title (which shifted from How to Catch a Monster), saying, “All I can really say is that it centers around a family. There’s my character, Bones, his mother and his younger brother. There’s also a girl next door played by Saoirse Ronan, called Rat.”
