Seen twice and 7/16/15
4/4
The Place Beyond the Pines, a dark masterpiece of gritty power and beauty, is doubtlessly one of my favorite films. The legendary characters and tough-won performances are totally unforgettable. There is a grungy might to this film that can only be paralleled by Cianfrance’s first work: both tear the heart and soul out of struggling American families, with the supremely perfect Ryan Gosling playing the young, hard-working fathers. Compared to Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines has gigantic scope, delivering dirty punch after dirty punch on an epic scale. This movie has a darkness that doesn’t really show up in the other. The impact of this film is enormous, and I can’t speak enough of the sensational people. This film is beautiful, a painful glory.
Friday, July 17, 2015
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Review: Blue Valentine
Seen twice and 7/5/15
4/4
Blue Valentine is amazing; almost like a miracle to me. It is on the level of intimacy, vulnerability, and authentic despair of only Blue is the Warmest Color. Dean and Cindy are some kind of Adele and Emma. The performances are unforgettable, impossibly strong and real, and the characters experience the full scope of human-to-human contact in brutal swings. Blue Valentine is a project of three people; director/writer Derek Cianfrance and lead actors / executive producers Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. This team is a powerhouse that produces one of the finest-tuned portraits of a relationship that exists in film. Ryan Gosling is the greatest hero of them all to me: he improvises up a character that is one of my few favorites in all of cinema, giving incredible charisma, warmth and pure passion to the character of Dean. Gosling as Dean could be the most personally profound thing I have ever found in a movie, perhaps only rivaled by Synecdoche's atmosphere and Magnolia's emotional impact. Michelle Williams is also incredible, but portraying a character I find ages less heroic than Gosling.
This film is extremely meaningful in my view, extremely authentic and insightful. It's a monument.
4/4
Blue Valentine is amazing; almost like a miracle to me. It is on the level of intimacy, vulnerability, and authentic despair of only Blue is the Warmest Color. Dean and Cindy are some kind of Adele and Emma. The performances are unforgettable, impossibly strong and real, and the characters experience the full scope of human-to-human contact in brutal swings. Blue Valentine is a project of three people; director/writer Derek Cianfrance and lead actors / executive producers Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. This team is a powerhouse that produces one of the finest-tuned portraits of a relationship that exists in film. Ryan Gosling is the greatest hero of them all to me: he improvises up a character that is one of my few favorites in all of cinema, giving incredible charisma, warmth and pure passion to the character of Dean. Gosling as Dean could be the most personally profound thing I have ever found in a movie, perhaps only rivaled by Synecdoche's atmosphere and Magnolia's emotional impact. Michelle Williams is also incredible, but portraying a character I find ages less heroic than Gosling.
This film is extremely meaningful in my view, extremely authentic and insightful. It's a monument.
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