Film Review - Only God Forgives
July 18, 2013
After scoring an unlikely success with 2011’s “Drive,” director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling delve even deeper into the darkness of cinema with “Only God Forgives,” an eye-crossingly violent mood piece on the futility of revenge. Considering the relative mass appeal of their previous work, “Only God Forgives” is decidedly specialized filmmaking for adventurous audiences blessed with paint-drying patience. It’s monumentally rough stuff with a glacial pace, though its surreal execution grows quite interesting the longer Refn sticks to the unknown and the absurd, making the effort more performance art in design than aggressively genre-minded. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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