The article 'The Place Beyond the Pines – review' was published on the website of the newspaper 'The Guardian' on April 14, 2013. It was written by Philip French.
The aim of the article is to give some description of the new film 'The Place Beyond the Pines'. It is directed by Derek Cianfrance. As the author says it's a new movie from the director of 'Blue Valentine' is a modern morality tale underpinned by outstanding central performances.
Production year: 2012
Country: USA
Runtime: 140 mins
Directors: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Dane DeHaan, Eva Mendes.
This film is a trilogy or triptych covering the relationship between two families, one blue collar, the other middle class, whose paths cross over two generations in Schenectady, an upstate New York town near the state capital of Albany. In the Mohawk language, Schenectady means "the place beyond the pines", and the title gives the film both a free-floating poetic resonance and a historical anchorage.
Further Philip French tells that the film is divided into three parts. The film's first part centres on Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling), a charismatic biker doing a dangerous wall-of-death stunt act at a travelling fair. He's a strutting, chain-smoking, much tattooed drifter who is transformed by the discovery that he's the father of Jason, the six-month-old son of Romina (Eva Mendes), a waitress in a suburban Schenectady cafe. In order to be near his son he gives up his transient life and takes a poorly paid job with a rural car repair shop run by the roughneck Robin (Ben Mendelsohn).
In the film's second part, the limelight switches from Gosling to Bradley Cooper. He's Avery Cross, a complementary figure: a college-educated uniformed cop and son of a well respected ex-judge. He too has a small son. Suddenly he becomes a police hero in somewhat dubious circumstances. Riddled with guilt, he's drawn into a web of corruption and professional intrigue that wraps itself around the local criminal justice system. Three crooked colleagues bring his life into collision with those of the working-class Romina and Jason on the other side of the tracks.
For the third part of the triptych, Cianfrance leaps forward 15 years. At this point the focus shifts to Luke's son, Jason, and Avery's son, AJ, their circumstances unknown to each other and both highly disturbed. In a contrived and perfunctory way they suddenly become high-school classmates in their senior year, and the sins of the fathers are visited on them when they're in trouble with the authorities as consumers and dealers of drugs.
Concluding, Philip French tells that 'The Place Beyond the Pines' is an engrossing, extremely well designed and acted film. As for me, I'd like to watch this film and to make a decision if it's really a good film.
The aim of the article is to give some description of the new film 'The Place Beyond the Pines'. It is directed by Derek Cianfrance. As the author says it's a new movie from the director of 'Blue Valentine' is a modern morality tale underpinned by outstanding central performances.
Production year: 2012
Country: USA
Runtime: 140 mins
Directors: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Dane DeHaan, Eva Mendes.
This film is a trilogy or triptych covering the relationship between two families, one blue collar, the other middle class, whose paths cross over two generations in Schenectady, an upstate New York town near the state capital of Albany. In the Mohawk language, Schenectady means "the place beyond the pines", and the title gives the film both a free-floating poetic resonance and a historical anchorage.
Further Philip French tells that the film is divided into three parts. The film's first part centres on Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling), a charismatic biker doing a dangerous wall-of-death stunt act at a travelling fair. He's a strutting, chain-smoking, much tattooed drifter who is transformed by the discovery that he's the father of Jason, the six-month-old son of Romina (Eva Mendes), a waitress in a suburban Schenectady cafe. In order to be near his son he gives up his transient life and takes a poorly paid job with a rural car repair shop run by the roughneck Robin (Ben Mendelsohn).
In the film's second part, the limelight switches from Gosling to Bradley Cooper. He's Avery Cross, a complementary figure: a college-educated uniformed cop and son of a well respected ex-judge. He too has a small son. Suddenly he becomes a police hero in somewhat dubious circumstances. Riddled with guilt, he's drawn into a web of corruption and professional intrigue that wraps itself around the local criminal justice system. Three crooked colleagues bring his life into collision with those of the working-class Romina and Jason on the other side of the tracks.
For the third part of the triptych, Cianfrance leaps forward 15 years. At this point the focus shifts to Luke's son, Jason, and Avery's son, AJ, their circumstances unknown to each other and both highly disturbed. In a contrived and perfunctory way they suddenly become high-school classmates in their senior year, and the sins of the fathers are visited on them when they're in trouble with the authorities as consumers and dealers of drugs.
Concluding, Philip French tells that 'The Place Beyond the Pines' is an engrossing, extremely well designed and acted film. As for me, I'd like to watch this film and to make a decision if it's really a good film.
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