Only God Forgives (2013)
Country: DK/FR/US/SV/BEL
Technical: col 90m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
Synopsis:
A Bangkok boxing promoter and drug dealer fails to avenge his brother's death at the hands of a maverick police inspector to his mother's satisfaction, and she sets about her own revenge. But it backfires.
Review:
Quite what Refn thought he was doing with this farrago of yakuza movie tropes. If it was to make another film with Gosling, fine but he gives him nothing to do but rather disassembles his badass persona. There are karaoke interludes, fantasy interpolations, the plot makes no kind of sense, and Scott Thomas is brought in to dress up as Cameron Diaz and swear a lot. Mise-en-scène is heavily formalised, like Peter Greenaway crossed with Beat Takeshi: next stop, The Neon Demon.
Country: DK/FR/US/SV/BEL
Technical: col 90m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
Synopsis:
A Bangkok boxing promoter and drug dealer fails to avenge his brother's death at the hands of a maverick police inspector to his mother's satisfaction, and she sets about her own revenge. But it backfires.
Review:
Quite what Refn thought he was doing with this farrago of yakuza movie tropes. If it was to make another film with Gosling, fine but he gives him nothing to do but rather disassembles his badass persona. There are karaoke interludes, fantasy interpolations, the plot makes no kind of sense, and Scott Thomas is brought in to dress up as Cameron Diaz and swear a lot. Mise-en-scène is heavily formalised, like Peter Greenaway crossed with Beat Takeshi: next stop, The Neon Demon.
Country: DK/FR/US/SV/BEL
Technical: col 90m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
Synopsis:
A Bangkok boxing promoter and drug dealer fails to avenge his brother's death at the hands of a maverick police inspector to his mother's satisfaction, and she sets about her own revenge. But it backfires.
Review:
Quite what Refn thought he was doing with this farrago of yakuza movie tropes. If it was to make another film with Gosling, fine but he gives him nothing to do but rather disassembles his badass persona. There are karaoke interludes, fantasy interpolations, the plot makes no kind of sense, and Scott Thomas is brought in to dress up as Cameron Diaz and swear a lot. Mise-en-scène is heavily formalised, like Peter Greenaway crossed with Beat Takeshi: next stop, The Neon Demon.