Critics Review Nicolas Winding Refn's New Film 'Her Private Hell'
Critics have released reviews for Nicolas Winding Refn's latest film, "Her Private Hell," with many describing it as a self-indulgent and challenging cinematic experience. The film, starring Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, has garnered mixed to negative reception.
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Her Private Hell review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s shapeshifting fantasia is a dreamy swirl of strangeness
Refn’s film eludes definition as it moves through time and space, from doomy reality to strange dream worlds populated by quasi-Lynchian characters The title’s first word should probably be “His”. Nicolas Winding Refn has returned to Cannes with a bizarre new fantasia moodscape, a midnight movie of fear and dreamy disquiet, meaning … what, exactly? The setting of the film – a twist on the 60s pulp shocker of the same title by Norman J Warren – morphs and shapeshifts from place to place, with ...
By Peter Bradshaw
Read full article →‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Nicolas Winding Refn Gets Lost in His Own Private Filmmaking Hell with This David Lynch-on-Bad-Acid Disaster
"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).
By Owen Gleiberman
Read full article →‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton in Danish Bad Boy Nicolas Winding Refn’s Agonizingly Self-Indulgent Return to Filmmaking
Havana Rose Liu, Diego Calva and Kristine Froseth co-star in the director’s arthouse B-movie mashup, which premiered as a midnight screening in Cannes.
By Jordan Mintzer
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