THE FILM:
Drive
, death on the turn
Reviewing
Drive
means going backwards to come back to 2011. Nicolas Winding Refn (NWR) is no stranger then.
The Danish director already has his fans.
We owe him the
Pusher
trilogy
, plunged into the dealer's in Copenhagen which passes Scorsese as an altar boy,
Bronson
, with Tom Hardy as a psychopathic convict, and
The Silent Warrior
, with Mads Mikkelsen as a one-eyed and nasty Viking.
In short, we don't expect NWR to be a romantic comedy.
But with
Drive
, adaptation of a novel by James Sallis, the Dane changes air and speed.
Direction Los Angeles, where Ryan Gosling is a stuntman in Hollywood by day and a robber driver by night.
Toothpick at the corner of the lips and jacket adorned with a scorpion, the ace of the steering wheel, solitary and secret, has a crush on his adorable neighbor (Carey Mulligan), a child on his arms and a husband in prison.
The rest is dark and violent, most often with a knife.
And Gosling ain't the last to go, blond sociopath far away
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