Nicolas Winding Refn
Noah’s Barks pages relating to movie/film director Nicolas Winding Refn.
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Bronson
An entertaining but ultimately shallow waste of potential. Bronson hints at social commentary beyond the story of its character with its metanarrative’s stand-up sections that seem to be leading into discussions about goading the mentally ill into stardom and exploiting it, but instead the film drops this for nothing. This flavor of Bronson as a… (read more)
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The Neon Demon
There’s some incredibly harsh imagery in The Neon Demon, complete with heavy, sharp, contrasting colors. This sleazy gloss accompanied by Cliff Martinez‘s distorted synthesizer compositions made me immediately think the movie had potential to be a favorite. But the style here seems like it should be multiplying the base concepts of industry corruption and the… (read more)
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Drive
Drive is a mostly conventional thriller that does little to elevate the common tropes used in its genre other than inserting some Taxi Driver. The soundtrack is great isolated, but the brightness doesn’t fit the movie tonally at all. Ryan Gosling’s character is wooden but possesses a modicum more depth than the surrounding cast. There… (read more)