127 Hours (2010

Shutter Island (2010 City of God (2002 Crash (2004) Layer Cake (2004 Fight Club (1999 The Social Network (2010) Gladiator Vera Drake (2004 Man on Fire (2004 Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives – first look review | Film It may not win the Palme D'Or, but it could win the Walkout D'Or, a gold trophy of a cinema-seat banged up into the upright position. Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives is a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad film set among American criminal expatriates in Bangkok. It is ultraviolent, creepy and scary, an enriched-uranium cake of pulp, with a neon sheen. The first scenes made me think that Wong Kar-wai had made a new film called In the Mood for Fear or In the Mood for Hate. Ryan Gosling plays Julian, the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. When Billy indulges his taste for violence and misogynist hate one night, and is himself murdered by his victim's father, Julian realises that he is expected to discharge the gangster's ultimate responsibility: revenge. Chang could be a Zen master, whose vocation is to proselytise for the futility of revenge.

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