Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon - GO SEE IT SOON!

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Trash.

Homicidal supermodel?

"im dangerous "

fukk outta here

Go and watch never back down part 5(not the gay porn) with your son.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

OH SHYT TRAILER IS OUT ITS LIT

This looks dope

 

[TheGodling]

The GOAT Cliff Martinez on the boards.

 

[Sane]

Looks interesting

 

[TheGodling]

Extensive Red Band Trailer dropping right in time for Cannes.



I don't know why every psychological thriller about young women rivalry needs to involves heavy lesbianism, but I'm perfectly fine with it.

 

[Jello Biafra]

The response at Cannes was supposedly unkind:

 

[Red Shield]

The response at Cannes was supposedly unkind:

Dude is turning into a director where you either love his stuff or hate it



I'mma still see it tho... I've liked dude's stuff so far.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Im still excited to see it, might suck, but I liked Only God Forgives despite what critics said

 

[TheGodling]

The response at Cannes was supposedly unkind:

No surprises there, outside of Drive critics have always been divided been on Refn and Cannes is famous for its hecklers who are dying to boo something. Much like Only God Forgives there are more than enough critics who enjoyed it too.

'The Neon Demon' First Reviews: Five-Star Raves and Qualified Praise from Cannes

The first few reviews of "The Neon Demon" are in from Cannes and they're...surprisingly positive for a movie that incited boos, walkouts and yelling at the screen. It seems that, as always, reports of such reactions coming from the festival tend not to speak to a movie's overall reception (even if the responses elicited by Nicolas Winding Refn's latest are especially amusing). Indiewire's own Eric Kohn writes that "this grotesque, hyperstylized treatise on the fashion industry recaptures some of the zany images and B-movie abstractions of Refn's crossover effort, 'Drive,' though it never quite gels on the same level of inspiration." Speaking of Bs, he gives it a B-.

Most enthusiastic for the film is Adam Woodward of Little White Lies, who gives "The Neon Demon" five stars and calls it "an intoxicating fever dream anchored by a transformative lead turn from Elle Fanning." Turning his attention to the film's fashion-world setting, Woodward goes on to note that "Los Angeles – and in Refn’s case Hollywood – subsists on its own mythology, and Refn exposes this by chipping away at the concealer-smothered cracks at the city’s glossy surface."

He's joined in his praise by Robbie Collins of The Telegraph, suggesting that "The Neon Demon" may do best in England: "When the film reaches its logical end point," Collins writes in another five-star review, "Refn just keeps pushing, and eventually lands on a sequence so jaw-dropping – almost certainly a sly, glossy-magazine refashioning of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s groundbreaking surrealist short 'Un Chien Andalou' – that all you can do is howl or cheer."

Writing for Variety, newly appointed chief film critic Owen Gleiberman isn't so enthuasiastic, calling "The Neon Demon" "a baroquely kinky gross-out surrealist horror film set in the L.A. fashion world." On the subject of Refn's distinctly garish aesthetics, Gleiberman describes a particularly out-there scene: "There’s a sequence set at a nightclub that features a neon triangle composed of three smaller triangles, and a duplicated image of three Jesses (one of whom kisses herself), and it may inspire two thoughts at once: 'Wow, that’s pretty cool!' and 'WTF is going on?'" Ultimately, he says, "It's not boring, but there's less to it than meets the eyeball."

"If the supermodel knife fight in Nicolas Winding Refn‘s movie doesn’t do it for you," begins Steve Pond's review for TheWrap, "maybe the necrophilia masturbation scene will." He later writes that "You could say that the director never knows when to stop — but it’s probably more accurate to say that he knows exactly when to stop, but doesn’t give a damn. 'The Neon Demon' is worthy of those boos and that abuse, and you can’t take it seriously for a second. But it’s also ridiculously, gloriously, stupidly entertaining, if you’re in the right mood."

 

[TheGodling]

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

I can't decide if I love or hate his films. Sometimes it's both.

 

[Max.]

Refn



Only go

 

[TheGodling]

I can't decide if I love or hate his films. Sometimes it's both.

Love and praise is the only answer!

 

[Jello Biafra]

For some reason I find it hilarious that the audiences started booing when the Amazon logo came up on the screen.

 

[Nature Boy Ric Flair]

Extensive Red Band Trailer dropping right in time for Cannes.



I don't know why every psychological thriller about young women rivalry needs to involves heavy lesbianism, but I'm perfectly fine with it.

AREN'T YOU GAY BREH


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO