Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine was one of the best films of 2010. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams played a couple brought together by circumstances and virtue that ultimately undermine their relationship. The complexity is both challenging and depressing. It wasn't an easy film to watch, but I loved it. Cianfrance's followup The Place Beyond the Pines debuted at Toronto this past Fall. While the few bit of reviews out there generally praise it, it didn't exactly set the internet on fire. The trailer doesn't build anticipation either. Gosling reteams with the director as a stunt driver (a profession he's played before, memorably) who contemplates a criminal endeavor (again, something he's already done memorably), while an ambitious cop (Bradley Cooper) sets his sights on political office. Sounds somewhat like The Departed to me, though not sure why. Gosling's girlfriend Eva Mendes plays his love interest. In the trailer, there's a brief moment involving actors Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) and Emory Cohen (?), that struck me as, unintentionally or otherwise, homoerotic. Perhaps I was just bored and underwhelmed. The film opens at the end of March.
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