NWR (Nicolas Winding Refn)

NWR (Nicolas Winding Refn) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
64 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Laurent Duroche

Written By:
Laurent Duroche

Actors:
Mads Brügger ..... Himself
Zlatko Buric ..... Himself
Liv Corfixen ..... Herself
Alejandro Jodorowsky ..... Himself
Mads Mikkelsen ..... Himself
Matthew Newman ..... Himself
Gaspar Noe ..... Himself
Peter Peter ..... Himself
Anders Refn ..... Himself
Nicolas Winding Refn ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Laurent Duroche's film presents an in-depth portrait of Nicolas Winding Refn, from being born into a liberal and filmmaking family to his strolls around Bangkok as he scouts out locations for his upcoming film, Only God Forgives. Refn tells us when he saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a 14 year old, it became his favorite film, one he believes to be the greatest of all. Why? Because "film did not have to be normal, it could be more like a piece of music, like John Cage music, it could be just a specific shot of images, it could be so many things...That film is so much imprinted in my memory." What follows after those words is a glimpse into a short film called Pusher, which, when considering its feature film successors, is such a treat. We then learn that at the time when Refn garnered a budget to make the feature Pusher, he was accepted to the prestigious Danish Film Institute, putting him at a crossroads. He decided that instead of paying school tuition, he could use that money to make his film...a great example of a filmmaker, an artist, with enough guts to follow his own path.

A documentary about danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Festival in 2011 for Drive. From his childhood to the shooting of his next Movie, Only God Forgives, in Thailand, discover the whole carrier of a truly visionary filmmaker. With Ryan Gosling, Mads Mikkelsen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noé, PeterPeter, Zlatko Buric...

NWR is a documentary on the visionary Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. It opens with Alejandro Jodorowsky and his feelings that today's cinema has reached a low state due to the industrial generations and the "cancer that is American cinema which has affected the entire planet." He ends by saying, however, that a certain "garçon, Nicolas," has saved him from his cinematic depression.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 February, 2014.