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Sign In. Play trailer Crime Drama Thriller. Director Derek Cianfrance. Top credits Director Derek Cianfrance. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer UK Trailer. Version 1. Clip Promo Photos Top cast Edit. Ryan Gosling Luke as Luke. Bradley Cooper Avery as Avery. Eva Mendes Romina as Romina. Craig Van Hook Jack as Jack. Olga Merediz Malena as Malena. Mahershala Ali Kofi as Kofi. John Facci Priest as Priest as Rev. John Facci. Ben Mendelsohn Robin as Robin.
Tula Robin's Dog as Robin's Dog. Penny Robin's Dog as Robin's Dog. It adds a certain harmony and also lets the audience leave the theater with a smile on their lips that still feels authentic, which was quite a challenge looking at everything that went wrong in the characters' lives before that.
I think the acting overall is fairly good in this movie. Cianfrance sure has a way to get the best out of his cast and like I said I am not the greatest fan of some some of the actors in here and my appreciation makes it even more impressive. Still I must say that for a film of almost 2. Here and there, there is a really good moment and I remember being really shocked because of Gosling's early death, but in retrospective, it really makes sense.
Oh yeah, and Ray Liotta should definitely play villains more often. He has a great aura surrounding him that seems pretty evil and his was definitely my favorite supporting performance that elevated the second chapter a lot. So overall, I would say that this one is on par quality-wise with Cianfrance's movie from last year.
A well-rounded effort that feels realistic and authentic despite really a lot happening from start to finish. The characters here sure go through a lot and it's perfectly fine that nobody in here is really likable maybe Gosling's character still the most because he does not seem violent and just cares for his son's well-being because it still makes sure all the time it is an interesting watch and I was curious about what would happen to the characters.
Also good on rewatch. See it. In Schenectady, the motorcycle stunt rider Lucas "Luke" Glanton Ryan Gosling drives in the globe of death of a traveling carnival. On the day of his last presentation before an one-year excursion, he is visited by a woman named Romina Gutierrez Eva Mendes , who had a love affair with him.
He finds that he has a baby with her, but Romina lives with another man, Kofi Mahershala Ali. Luke quits his job and decides to stay in the town. He befriends the owner of a small garage, Robin Ben Mendelsohn , who offers a job and a place to stay. However, Luke does not make enough money to support his son and he decides to heist banks.
One day, things go wrong and Luke is murdered by the rookie police officer Avery Cross Bradley Cooper. Avery is considered a hero by the press and soon he discovers corruption among his colleagues. The ambitious Avery plots a scheme seeking promotion and he gets evidence to put the police officers in prison.
Avery is in political campaign and sends AJ, who is a troublemaker, to Schenectady. Soon their lives are entwined and haunted by the past. In the first one, Ryan Gosling's performance recalls his introspective character in "Drive", but this time in a motorcycle. Then Bradley Cooper performs an ambitious character very different from those in romantic comedies.
The last part is the weakest, trying to show the effect of the families with absent father on the babies the same way it had happened with Luke, but the performance of Emory Cohen is weak and Jason actually had an apparently caring stepfather that is a good man, on the contrary of his biological father.
My vote is eight. Prismark10 16 October The Place Beyond the Pines starts out with motorcycle stunt rider Luke Ryan Gosling who starts robbing banks in order to provide for his baby.
A son he belatedly discovers he has because he broke up with his girlfriend Romina, Eva Mendes who is now living with another man. Luke's plans to be a good father does not end well as his luck runs out. Avery Bradley Cooper is a novice cop who goes after Luke and later gets in some bother with corrupt cops in his department.
The ambitious Avery uses this to get into the District Attorney's office. The third act of the movie is set 15 years later as the children of these two men cross paths. Both children are delinquents in some ways. The film goes for an epic scope with interweaving stories. There is a great opening with Gosling as he goes out to ride the wall of death.
The film loses its focus when it concentrates on their kids because the story is not that great. However director Derek Cianfrance has made an intriguing film. It is a shame that he runs out of his narrative drive by the end. Well delivered novel of a film, with sustained pace and strong performances, albeit flaws that come with the approach bob the moo 8 February Aside from knowing it had quite a few famous names in it and that people seemed to generally say it was a good film, I really knew nothing about this film, from the plot right through to the structure or anything.
This is a really good way to come to the film because the story really gripped me throughout and when things happened, they genuinely took me by surprise in the most part and really assured me that I should not assume anything about the film or the characters. This sense of trusting the film to take me where it wanted made for an engaging experience and I do suggest you try to come to it the same way.
The plot starts with a motorcycle rider who quits his job in the carnival and stays in one town where he learns he fathered a child with a fling a year ago. This decision puts him in a difficult place and it is from this place that we start a story that brings in multiples of characters, moves our focus around among them and ultimately spans several decades in the telling.
The delivery of this story is consistent and engaging with a constant air of tension and simmering anger or frustration in the collection of men on which it focuses. As individual scenes it is surprisingly satisfying and although it has a longer running time, it went by very quickly. With all the characters we have conflict, anger, desperation and other similar themes within them, although the source of these vary.
The approach of the delivery is very much like a novel to get into and feel through — it is an approach that worked very well but does have a downside. The weakness is that it doesn't build so much as sustain and those who need a strong conclusion that one would normally get with a film, may be disappointed that it is much more subdued and final in the style of a novel. To me the strengths were worth this cost but I can understand why some come away feeling like any individual moment is better than the film as a whole, because perhaps it does play a little fragmented and doesn't come together as a complete film.
The look and feel of the film is really well balanced and matches the overall tone, with a patient, haunting violence throughout the cinematography, the direction, the score and of course the performances.
It is hard to pick one performance from the pack but for me the smaller detail of Mendes' pain is great — particularly in a film focused on the male characters. She has so much in her character and she brings that pain out really well — not in an Oscar showcase but just in the small cracks, like in real life.
Gosling is very silent and does draw you in even if he has comparatively little to do. Cooper is strong in his role and he changes through the film well — at first a comparatively straight forward character but has more to him.
Cohen I didn't care for as a character, but his spoilt kid is still well played while DeHaan did well alongside him. The supporting cast is dense with talent from Clohessy, Greenwood, Liotta, Ali and others — they come and go but help the feel of a bigger story. The Place Beyond the Pines is not perfect as a film but it is really engaging as a novel.
It is fragmented a little and sustains its pace rather than building, but it works at almost every moment to draw the viewer in. The stories told offer a variety of things but consistent across them is that the delivery of the film and the performances within them are professional and effective.
Not an easy sell, but a film worth seeing. Luke Ryan Gosling is a bad boy motorcycle rider who travels with a circus and has one night stands. Eva Mendes was one of those conquests. A year or so later they meet again. She has his child and a boyfriend Mahershala Ali. Luke doesn't want to be an absentee father and forces his way into their life through gifts which he pays for with his newly acquired bank robbing addiction. About 50 minutes into the film, we are introduced another main character, policeman Avery Bradley Cooper.
Then act three start about 40 minutes later 16years or so with all the children grown and only Eva Mendes among the adults looking any older. The ending is supposed to be heart warming, but doesn't make it. The film is long, but it is not deep. The action moves like a man running with one shoe nailed in place. I never felt for any of the characters. The scene with Bradley Cooper crying was just horrible. That was grade B acting topping off a stiff performance. Gosling on the other hand gave us a strong performance and Mendes was never developed.
What was her problem? She wants him, she doesn't want him, she wants him, she doesn't want him. It wants to cycle back, but then sputters, it doesn't take off. It might make do for a Redbox rental. Parental Guide: F-bomb, after sex scene, no nudity. Eva Mendes is not only beautiful, but also a great actress. Something that also can be said about Mr. Cooper and Mr. While Blue Valentine same director did concentrate on a single relationship and two people , this is a wider look on relationships and consequences of some actions people take.
Just because someone is doing a bad thing, does not make them a bad person. Same goes for a person with a badge police. The movie will not give you easy answer and might take away a few things early on, that might be surprising if no one has told you that is.
But the emotional impact should be a really strong one. If you can bare to sit through it, it will be worth your while. What really caught my eye about "The Place Beyond the Pines" is how the focus shifts as the movie progresses.
First it's about Luke, then it's about Avery, lastly it's about the sons. Moreover, in each case you want the focused-on character to achieve his goal even if it's something ethically questionable.
It's as though director Derek Cianfrance - who previously directed Ryan Gosling in "Blue Valentine" - is playing with the audience, much like Alfred Hitchcock did with "Psycho" which also shifted its focus from character to character, getting the audience to root for each character.
The result is a very good, tense movie, one that progresses at just the right pace to let more and more of the story develop. I recommend it. I saw a trailer and a few clips from this film while it was in cinemas, and it was recommended rather well on Film with Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh, and other sources, so I was certainly going to watch it, and for the good cast involved.
Basically the film is made up of three parts, all related to each other, the title by the way is the English meaning of the city of Schenectady, New York, which is derived loosely from a Mohawk word for "place beyond the pine plains. With auto repair shop owner Robin Ben Mendelsohn he starts robbing banks, for a while successful, but after a short stint in jail he pushes his luck and tries without Robin, only to get chased by Officer Avery Cross Bradley Cooper , cornered he tells Romina not to tell his son about what he is, and he gets shot by Cross out of the window and is dead on the ground.
The second part is about Avery, who becomes a hero for shooting the criminal, but he feels great guilt for killing him, especially knowing he had a son, as he does, and he finds fellow officers Scott Gabe Fazio and Deluca Ray Liotta have seized the stolen money and are getting him involved in the corruption. Cross tries to hand the money back to Romina, but she refuses to take it because of him killing the father of her child, and his commanding officer refuses to have it turned in and have accusations about officers made within the department, but he captures footage of an officer trying to get cocaine, and proving the crimes manages to become assistant district attorney.
The third and final part is set fifteen years later, Cross is trying to cope with his teenage son AJ Emory Cohen while also running for office, he has also separated from wife Jennifer Rose Byrne , and at his new high school the son has befriended Jason Dane DeHaan , Romina's son, and who does not know anything about his father. AJ and Jason are arrested for possession of drugs, but recognising Jason's name Cross manages to drop the charges, while AJ is told to stay away from his friend Jason wants to know about his biological father, and with Romina refusing to tell him anything he gets the answers from stepfather Robin.
He is later invited by AJ to his house party, and he recognises a photograph of Cross and knows he killed his father, he has a fight with AJ and is hospitalised, but returning to the house he badly beats up AJ and takes Cross hostage, they drive into the woods where the teenager considered killing his father's killer, but he changes his mind with the man tearfully apologising.
In the end Jason takes his wallet and drives his car away, in the wallet is a photograph of him as a baby with mother Romina and father Luke which Cross had taken, Cross wins the vote and becomes New York Attorney General, Romina gets an envelope saying "Mom" with the photograph inside, and Jason buys a motorcycle to run away and live a life as a traveller like his father.
Goslin is great at being the criminal trying to do good for his family, Cooper is good being the lawman who makes mistakes but tries to correct them however he can, and DeHaan is terrific as the young man wanting to learn about and perhaps avenge his father, and supporting cast members like Mendes are suitable as well.
All three of the stories are filled with surprising and compelling melodramatic material, there are some very intriguing twists, I agree coincidence plays a big part, but that is not too distracting when you consider how smart and well crafted it all is, a most watchable crime drama. Very good! Lofty title for what is an often overwrought odyssey that begins with the shooting of a bank robber by a rookie police officer in New York.
The actions by the cop--who is not only the son of a prominent judge with a rich kid's education, but one with political aspirations to boot!
Heavy-going and yet thoughtful, intriguing drama in three acts from director Derek Cianfrance, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ben Coccio and Darius Marder. The film is sprawled out like a novel, and runs the risk of becoming a melodramatic potboiler, though it features superlative performances from leads Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper who just barely share one sequence together.
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