The night began with a little celebrity-fueled silliness. �As Ryan Gosling arrived at the Princess of Wales Theater in Toronto for the premiere of his latest picture, The Place Beyond The Pines, a crowd of eager fans barged across traffic-stalled King Street to swarm the object of their affection. But once Gosling's second film with filmmaker Derek Cianfrance ? they made the remarkably pure heartbreaker Blue Valentine together ? got started, it was clear that the two friends and a remarkable cast that included Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Ben Mendelsohn had made a seriously good movie.
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As Cianfrance told the crowd afterward, the movie "is about legacy ? about being a father." Gosling plays a stunt motorcyclist who turns to bank-robbing out of sense of responsibility to a child he fathered; his performance is so indelible that you don't forget him once he's left the screen. The remarkable thing is that Cianfrance ? who said during the Q&A that the structure of the film was inspired by Psycho ? gets Bradley Cooper, who plays a Schenectady, NY cop with adjustable morals, to pick up the baton and carry the movie before handing it off to Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen, who both give memorable performances as the sons, respectively, of Gosling's and Cooper's characters. Indeed, there are so many strong performances in this movie ? Mendelsohn is also a standout ? that the Academy could have a tough time figuring out who to honor with a nomination.
Cianfrance told the crowd that he actually began writing the film before Blue Valentine in 2007 when he was in the process of becoming a father for the second time.…
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