"Her Private Hell" takes up where "The Neon Demon" left off — or maybe I should say where "Twin Peaks: The Return" left off, since the new movie plays like a knockoff of David Lynch at his most bafflingly obscure crossed with the hellscape fetishism of Gaspar Noé crossed with the world’s most avant-garde perfume commercial (which makes sense, since directing avant-garde perfume commercials is how part of Refn earns his living).
"Her Private Hell" takes up where "The Neon Demon" left off — or maybe I should say where "Twin Peaks: The Return" left off, since the new movie plays like a knockoff of David Lynch at his most bafflingly obscure crossed with the hellscape fetishism of Gaspar Noé crossed with the world’s most avant-garde perfume commercial (which makes sense, since directing avant-garde perfume commercials is how part of Refn earns his living).
Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001’s Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016’s Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart condition three years ago. Somehow, it was excluded from the Cannes […]
Memories of cinema past and present come rushing at you like 2001’s Star Gate sequence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first return to cinema since 2016’s Neon Demon and his first project since dying for 20 minutes from a serious heart condition three years ago. Somehow, it was excluded from the Cannes […]
Nicolas Winding Refn returned to Cannes with “Her Private Hell” and continued his festival hot streak of dividing audiences. The provocateur’s latest feature is headlined by “Yellowjackets” and “Companion” star Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, the “Riverdale” actor who redefined his career at Cannes when Todd Haynes’ “May December” premiered in 2023. The late-night screening […]
Nicolas Winding Refn returned to Cannes with “Her Private Hell” and continued his festival hot streak of dividing audiences. The provocateur’s latest feature is headlined by “Yellowjackets” and “Companion” star Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, the “Riverdale” actor who redefined his career at Cannes when Todd Haynes’ “May December” premiered in 2023. The late-night screening […]
Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn […]
Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after Fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn […]
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell, his first film in 10 years, his last being the Elle Fanning starrer Neon Demon. In the fashionista aspect of it all, you could say Her Private Hell is its spiritual cousin. The film begins at a swanky hotel in a futuristic LA-like city where […]
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell, his first film in 10 years, his last being the Elle Fanning starrer Neon Demon. In the fashionista aspect of it all, you could say Her Private Hell is its spiritual cousin. The film begins at a swanky hotel in a futuristic LA-like city where […]
At the ongoing 79th Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film, a legend was honored on Sunday for his work in genre cinema. The filmmaker returned to the festival, where he won the Best Director award 15 years ago, with his first feature in a decade. The movie will have its premiere in the festival's out-of-competition section on May 18. The honor was presented to him by the Fantastic Pavilion, and Collider is excited to partner with them and Alex Noyer's digital horror series, The Séance, to bring
At the ongoing 79th Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film, a legend was honored on Sunday for his work in genre cinema. The filmmaker returned to the festival, where he won the Best Director award 15 years ago, with his first feature in a decade. The movie will have its premiere in the festival's out-of-competition section on May 18. The honor was presented to him by the Fantastic Pavilion, and Collider is excited to partner with them and Alex Noyer's digital horror series, The Séance, to bring you news and interviews from the world of genre cinema. Noyer serves as both showrunner and host of The Séance, and launched the Fantastic Pavilion in 2023 with Pablo Guisa Koestinger.
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