Ryan Gosling’s Debut Feature, LOST RIVER, Gets a Date & a Trailer

Previously titled How to Catch A Monster, Lost River is Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut. The film stars Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, Matt Smith, Ben Mendelsohn and genre classic Barbara Steele (who replaced Karen Black after her passing). The film will be showing at SXSW in Austin after some shaky reviews from its Cannes premiere.

Watching the trailer above shows me that Gosling has a unique visual style, even if it borrows from Refn in its simplicity at times. It is also photographed by Gaspar Noé‘s DP, Benoît Debie. Given what I’ve seen from this trailer alone, I’m willing to take a chance. The film is scored by Johnny Jewel, who was originally supposed to do the score for Drive. Warner Bros. doesn’t seem to have high hopes for it as they are releasing the film Day & Date on April 10th. Hopefully the SXSW screening will help their hype.