Cannes Review: Nicolas Winding Refn Makes an Underwhelming Return with Her Private Hell

Almost ten years to the day since The Neon Demon’s premiere, Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell—a film wherein the internet’s it girl du jour Sophie Thatcher is captured quite beautifully through the Danish filmmaker’s heightened, neo-noir style. With the film’s wafer-thin plot and essentially non-existent characters, however, the one-time enfant […] The post Cannes Review: Nicolas Winding Refn Makes an Underwhelming Return with Her Private Hell first appeared on The Film Stage.