The Torino Film Festival’s era of dedicating a retrospective to a young Danish filmmaker who was then known only to a small circle of enthusiasts now feels distant. It was 2009, and Nicholas Winding Refn hadn’t yet conquered Cannes and the rest of the world with his Drive, but he had already produced noteworthy works such as the Pusher trilogy, as well as Bronson and Valhalla Rising.
Today, in that present where Drive was followed by films like Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon, and two TV series (Too Old to Die Young and Copenhagen Cowboy), NWR — as he himself likes to sign — is not just a cult director, but almost a brand, the symbol of a cinema unmistakable for its style and personality. And there was therefore great anticipation for his return to the big screen, for Her Private Hell, which had its world premiere at Cannes and made its Italian cinema debut last week thanks to MUBI, a film that seems to mark yet another evolution of Refn’s style while respecting the obsessions that have always driven him.
On the occasion of the film’s release, NWR also stopped by Rome to meet the press, and we interviewed him in a grand hotel in the capital, where he spoke with the usual gentleness about his creative process, the film’s themes, and what could be the coordinates of his cinema to come. You can hear him in this our video interview.
Nicolas Winding Refn: Video Interview with the Director of Her Private Hell
Her Private Hell: Plot and Trailer of the Film
The acclaimed director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the big screen with Her Private Hell. When a mysterious fog unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American soldier (Charles Melton) see their destinies intertwined in a hypnotic universe, bathed in neon lights, where memory, reality and survival collide.
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