"Drive," Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn's previous collaboration, was a moody tone piece punctuated with sudden, intense violence. Refn ups the ante in his new film "Only God Forgives," in which Gosling again stars as a troublingly ambiguous main character. As Refn told Moviefone, "If 'Drive' was good cocaine, this would be like great, old-school acid."
In the film, which is set in the criminal underground of Thailand, Gosling must stand up to his overbearing mother (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas as you've never seen her before) and face off with a corrupt cop who acts as the ruthless "God" of the title.
Below, we speak with Refn about the movie's influences, his love of silence, and why he (no surprise) was fine when the movie got partially booed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Moviefone: The trailers for the film make it seem like this...
In the film, which is set in the criminal underground of Thailand, Gosling must stand up to his overbearing mother (an over-the-top Kristin Scott Thomas as you've never seen her before) and face off with a corrupt cop who acts as the ruthless "God" of the title.
Below, we speak with Refn about the movie's influences, his love of silence, and why he (no surprise) was fine when the movie got partially booed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Moviefone: The trailers for the film make it seem like this...
- 7/16/2013
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
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