Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks
Rating: ****
For most part of Drive, Gosling’s un-named protagonist glides along in his car in silence, observing, waiting, watching. Then, suddenly, without a notice, he shifts gears. The guy who exchanges shy smiles with his pretty neighbour, without opening up further, snarls local hoodies into silence with a short snap. The guy who spends most of his day under the car’s hood at a garage runs those automobiles down fast and furious most nights. And the guy who gently carries his neighbour’s sleeping child to bed late evenings shrugs off bullet hits on his arms other nights.
Refn, who won Best Director at Cannes 2011 for Drive (the film was also nominated for Palme d’Or) manages these shifts in gears with aplomb. Drive moves as lovingly over Gosling’s hands on the steering wheel and the light playing across his face as it lingers on the extreme, brutal and sudden bursts of violence he is revealed to be capable of. Cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel captures a warm day and quiet nights between Gosling and Irene (Mulligan) and her son as beautifully as the slow build-up to a shootout, marked by just a masked man peering through the door of a crowded pizzeria.
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