Dunst and Gosling are Good Things

Kirsten Dunst, whose short film here at Sundance was one of the poorer bits of cinema I’ve seen, is going to team up with Ryan Gosling for a love-murder-mystery-story called All Good Things.

Set in the 1980s, story centers on the scion of a New York real estate dynasty (Gosling) who falls for a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks (Dunst). But the fairy tale ends when the girl disappears. As a down-and-out detective stumbles on info that may lead to the truth, the political stakes get higher and people close to the case end up dead.

Seriously, this is her short film. About 8 minutes of Winona Ryder being creeped out by her haunted house, and then she tells the ghost off, and in the last ten seconds is “thus began the story of our 2 and a half year relationship with Chuck, our resident ghost” or some such. Nothing to it, likely wouldn’t be seen if it wasn’t Dunst. Ah, well. I’ve seen worse short films here, though, too, but they’re usually the punishingly pretentious ones that are just 20 minutes of loud, annoying music and cacophonous imagery.