Directed by razzle - dazzle impresario Baz Luhrmann, this «Gatsby» boasts the charismatic duo of Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey
Mulligan as romantic leads, 3 - D as its format, a soundtrack rife with proven hitmakers, a Jazz Age setting and a theme of the American Dream gone sour that still resonates today.
It's a picture
as well about the romance of restraint in a
romantic lead pairing, Driver and Irene (
Mulligan, bearing a close enough resemblance to Michelle Williams that the movie takes on a weird, alternate - universe Blue Valentine feeling), that is never consummated save for one magic - realist kiss in an elevator.