https://staging2.theplaylist.net/marrakech-interview-nicolas-winding-refn-on-disliking-vikings-realism-what-he-learned-from-fear-x-20131209/ Fri, 13 May 2016 08:28:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/marrakech-interview-nicolas-winding-refn-on-disliking-vikings-realism-what-he-learned-from-fear-x-20131209/#comment-42002 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:28:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/marrakech-interview-nicolas-winding-refn-on-disliking-vikings-realism-what-he-learned-from-fear-x-90878/#comment-42002 Nice. I re-watched Only God Forgives last night for the first time since I saw it on premiere night seven months ago in Denmark. It's still one of the most fascinating films I've ever come across. The soundtrack, the neo-noir cinematography, the bizarre acting (Gosling's as minimalistic as it gets, whereas Scott-Thomas is Lady Macbeth-like baroque!), the themes of sins, God and Oedipus or whatever it is that Refn is trying to convey make this one of my favorite films. It's as if David Lynch and Michael Mann co-directed a Kubrickian thai-boxing b-movie that drags out the intensity of the final shootout of Taxi Driver for one long feature film. I can't wait to see what Refn has in store next. I love that he is a fan of mystery, ambiguity and room for interpretation.

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