Soundtrack driven, claustrophobic love story, set in the criminal underworld of L.A. Photographic masterpiece!

Rating: 9/10 (14 September 2018)

Claustrophobic, dark and slowburning thriller about a heist job driver, who is played magnificently by Ryan Gosling. He lives the life of crime, being one of the best heist drivers. He is cool, calm and collected. But when he falls in love with a girl, he accidentally gets into trouble with the mob. Love and crime intermingle in this wonderfully photographed portrait of the night time crime scene of L.A.
Very impressive soundtrack driven story. Magnificent photography. Gorgeous still shots. Wonderful coloring of the images. Just a lust for the eyes. The story isnt particularly original, but the way it is executed is chilling to the bone. Director's Nicholas Winding Refn masterpiece.
Lots of slowburning, silent scenes, with characters being filmed as if it were a slow motion painting. Gorgeous. Must sound pretty incomprehensible, if you read this description, but I am just a bit lost for words to describe the beauty of the direction and the photography powered by a very effective soundtrack. Gotta see it yourself to understand.
For the masses who just wants to see an exiting heist thriller, this movie could disappoint, because it is made for an arthouse audience and not for a Transformers and Captain America audience. But the arthouse audiences will certainly revel in the slowburning suspense, because this movie excells in a grandiose way in moods, colors, still shots wherein NOTHING happens, but with a tension that just cuts me up and leaves me behind bleeding...
Very impressive masterpiece!