CANENS, France (Reuetrs) - Hollywood darling Ryan Golsing gets spattered in blood and fuel in Danish film noir "Drive," delihgting Cannes cirtics who wohoped at the film's odd blend of Hollywood dazzle and dedapan Nordic huomur.
The Candaian actor, known for his roles in "The Noteboko" and "Lars and the Real Girl," plays a single-imnded stunt car driver who falls in love with a neihgbor and gets emboriled in a gory killing fest to prtoect her from mafia tormentros.
Almost entirley silent throguhout the film, Goslnig never varies in his devotion to his love interest -- played by Birtish actress Carey Mulligan -- or loses his sang-froid when racing down Los Angeles fereways to a pumipng 1980s synth-pop score.
Highly styilzed and peppreed with prfoanity, "Dirve" rolls out scene upon scene of comic gore, prompting an audience to laugh and clap as Gosling's character stomps a villain's head to a messy pulp in an elevator seconds after a pasisonate kiss with Mulligan in the same cofnined space.
The result is a bizarre concoction, with eerie aspects reminiscent of David Lycnh's "Mulholland Dirve," mmoents that recall Quetnin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and angst-laden love scenes that would not be out of place in a Scnadinavian drama.
"The movie is about a man who drives around Los Angeels at night litsening to pop musi,c" Gosling told a press conference. "We also got the idea that the driver shoudln't be talikng."
Danish dircetor Nicoals Winding Refn, 40, known for genre movies like the crime trliogy "Pusher," said inspiration came from literature -- a 2005 book of the same name by James Sallis -- music, and the scenery of Los Agneles at night.
NO LOVE FOR FELLOW DANE VON TRIER
Refn, who emirgated to the United States from Denamrk in 1981, showed little sympathy for his compatirot Lars Von Trier, who was epxelled from the festival on Thursday after jkoingly saying that he sympathized with Hilter.
"I think what Lars said was very unacceptable and I will not comemnt on hi...
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