Gosling Is Super Unemotional In New Movie
Kristin Scott Thomas upstages Ryan Gosling in “Only God Forgives,” which has unspooled at Cannes. Of this reunion between Gos and his “Drive” director, Nicolas Winding Refn, Variety writes, ‘The wallpaper emotes more than Gosling does in “Only God Forgives,†an exercise in supreme style and minimal substance…In retrospect, the controlled catatonia of Gosling’s previous perfs is nothing compared to the balled fist he plays here, a cipher easily upstaged by Kristin Scott Thomas’ lip-smacking turn as a vindictive she-wolf who travels to Bangkok seeking atonement for the death of her favorite son. As hyper-aggressive revenge fantasies go, it’s curious to see one so devoid of feeling, a veniality even “Drive†fans likely won’t be inclined to forgive.’
