Alan Rapp

Her Private Hell

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  • Title: Her Private Hell
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Walking into a Nicolas Winding Refn film you can always be assured of a visual feast. In that way, Her Private Hell doesn’t fail to impress. Refn brings to life an entrancing future surrounded by mysterious mist hiding dark secrets and a killer clad in leather. And in the middle of it all the elaborately decorated home of Elle (Sophie Thatcher) and the dysfunctional family consisting of her father (Dougray Scott) and stepmother (Havana Rose Liu).

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Only God Forgives

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  • Title: Only God Forgives
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I don’t know that I’ve ever watched a more beautiful but empty film than Nicolas Winding Refn‘s 2013 thriller Only God Forgives which throughout every immaculately staged shot and beautifully lit scene feels like marionettes dragged around the screen by a director who refuses to let his actors, or their characters, have any agency of their own.

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