#5. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives
Gist: Julien (Ryan Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok, but the business is a front for his family’s drug smuggling operation. When his brother is murdered, his mother, Jenna (Kristin Scott Thomas), orders him to find and kill the party responsible. The boxing club will utilized.
Prediction: This is Refn’s much anticipated follow-up to 2011’s Drive, which played in the Main Competition that year and snagged him Best Director at the fest. Refn reunites with Gosling and Larry Smith, his cinematographer from Bronson (2008), that Miss Marple television film from 2007, and Fear X (2003). A slot in the Main Competition seems inevitable for Only God Forgives – the film which Thierry showed surprise clips of at last year’s fest.
