"Only God Forgives," Nicolas Winding Refn's latest collaboration with Ryan Gosling just let out in Cannes this morning and the conversations on Twitter are heated and polarizing. There's either love or loathing in the air and not a lot in between. Many are remarking that it's similar in tone to Refn and Gosling's last team-up in "Drive." This stands to reason as Gosling himself told us earlier in the year, "It's very extreme. It's part of the same dream as 'Drive,' but it's more of a nightmare than a dream... So that's what happens when you let Nicolas loose in Thailand. There's no one around to put the reins on and he's completely unleashed." Our reviewer was somewhat in the middle, giving it a B-grade and noting that it "stretches Refn's neon-noir style over too little oedipal, amoral substance" (for a counterpoint take it should be noted that Playlister Kevin Jagernauth apparently loved it). Either way, it's the talk of Cannes at the moment both in the online and terrestrial...
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