A master piece of Art

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2011)

This film is magnificent. The director combines a quite violent story with an incredibly good film technique that plays with the lights, music and gorgeous photography to build ever lasting moments of deep melancholy and sensibility. The film follows an hypnotic pace that using musics and silences that create extremely intense moments. Ryan Gosling does a superb performance in a role where he is only using 100 words at most to express a varied rainbow of feelings that goes from love to anger, and from tenderness to revenge. I was surprised by how much he was able to communicate saying so little. I haven't seen such an artistic piece since the Black Swan. Regardless of the story, it is a pleasure to watch such a unique piece of art. Nevertheless, the story is quite good so I give this film a 10.