DRIVE
Part action film, part art film, DRIVE is brutal and beautiful. Winner of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, for Nicolas Winding Refn of the PUSHER trilogy, DRIVE is the perfect blend of Hollywood and European cinema. The Cosford is pleased to bring this electric film back to the big screen for a limited engagement and predicts it to become a new cult classic. Beautifully shot, succinctly spliced, and excellently acted, DRIVE is mesmerizing and adventurous.
"Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn neatly manage the hat trick of paying homage to those wheelmen of yore while reinvigorating the genre with style, smarts and flashes of wit."
-Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"The look is artfully stylized, influenced by classic film noir; the mood is dark; the performances nuanced; and the story unnervingly exciting."
-Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"Gosling and this powerful film, which is ultimately about a moment of grace, deserve each other. He's the medium's most graceful minimalist."
-Joe Morgenstern, WALL STREET JOURNAL
Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for a movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. After a heist spins unpredictably out of control, Driver (Gosling) 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 (Carey Mulligan) and her son -- Driver is forced to shift gears and go on the offense.
Make sure you make it to the special midnight screening - January 28 - it's the best way to see this modern neo-neon noir!
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Rated R.
USA, 2011, Digital Projection, 100 minutes, Color, English.