Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After a heist intended to pay off Standard's protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals. But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk-that they're coming straight for Irene and her son-Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense.

 

This has gotten pretty good reviews and Refn deservedly won Best Director for it at Cannes. He's surely gonna get a Best Director nod at the Oscars as well.

 

I definitely felt some Pulp Fiction vibes watching this especially the use of the music. The soundtrack & score was incredible. The film > the trailer though. The trailer makes it look like some fast paced action movie but it's really not.

 

SO GOOD. It's basically been my flat song or the past two weeks since my flatmates all went to see it

 

SO GOOD. It's basically been my flat song or the past two weeks since my flatmates all went to see it

 

OH MY GOD YES

 

Nightcall too :wub:

Such a good film. I need that jacket.

Saw this last week and I was delighted to find that it wasn't dubbed into French! :D Great movie.

I don't mind violence in films but I don't think this film needed it.

Oh, and I was heartbroken when Nightcall played during the credits. I stumbled across it a few months ago on Youtube and wanted to enter it to Unknown Pleasures but now it's too popular. :lol:

The is film is cool as f***.

Went to see it a short while ago, and it really was a great film, probably one which should be experienced in a cinema. Reasonably interesting story, cool main character, not overplayed or stressed, lovely soundtrack and just bloody brilliant stylewise.

I especially liked the contrast between the violent and the non violent scenes. At my viewing people among the audience would start laughing at the violence, not because it was funny, but simply because it was so over the top and so out of the blue.

Gorgeous.

 

While it started a bit slow, the last 30 minutes or so were beyond incredible.

 

So many indoor scenes, plus the lead actor with a Canadian accent. You wouldn't even know that it happened in America, where everything and everyone is fast as f***, had they not told us that.

 

I must say I liked the graphic bloody scenes. They seemed somewhat different though... more real?

I liked it, but I wasn't crazy over idk. Soundtrack was brilliant though.

It was all a bit style over substance for me. It would've been a write-off if it wasn't for the amazing final half hour where they actually started telling a story instead of just alternating lingering camera shots of Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan (who by the way was fantastic despite the role being underwritten).