Shock Video: Ryan Gosling & the Cast of Lost River

Experiential and stylish, Ryan Gosling’s Lost River is something else. The film is a colorful exploration of American disrepair and the increasing heights, extremes and surreal nature of our own world. Pegged as in the style of Gosling’s idols and collaborators like Jodorowsky, Lynch and Refn, the director more successfully recalls and utilizes the tools of Eurohorror. Unsettling imagery and performance, and fantastical atmosphere tell a tale of all too relatable woes like financial strain and the angst of being stuck.

When Lost River made its U.S. Premiere at this past March’s SXSW, I sat down with Gosling and stars Iain De Caestecker and Saoirse Ronan to discuss the film, particularly its inclusion of Italian horror icon Barbara Steele and crafting an atmosphere full of unreal design and found objects in Detroit.

Out April 10^th on VOD and in theaters from Warner Bros., Lost River is “a dark fairy-tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves.”

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