Wednesday 22 May 2013

ONLY GOD FORGIVES IS A HIT AT CANNES


After winning the Best Director prize at Cannes two years ago for the Oscar-nominated Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives has been met with a similarly warm response at this year's festival.

As Ryan Gosling's mob-boss mother, Kristin Scott Thomas is one of the high points of the film, according to The Playlist's Jessica Kiang, and she also notes Cliff Martinez's score as another, although does describe the movie as 'not the movie we hoped for'. 'An immersive and brutally intriguing film', writes Mark Adams in Screen Daily. In The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw considers it a nasty film, but excellently so, and his review is perhaps the most positive. On the other hand, Sasha Stone's review in Awards Daily is perhaps the least positive, and she expresses a desire to forget the images which Winding Refn has presented in his film.

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