Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Heats Up Cannes With 12-Minute Standing Ovation

Monday nighttime belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn astatine Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing retired of competition, it spiced up nan Grand Theatre Lumiere pinch a 12-minute opinionated ovation, nan 2nd of nan nighttime aft Fjord.

The movie stars Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth and Charles Melton successful a communicative that originates astatine a swanky futuristic LA-like metropolis hotel. A group of model-esque women congregate, astir to make a Barbarella-like sci-fi movie. But a slayer by nan sanction of Leather Man lurks.

Refn won Best Director successful his Cannes debut for his 2011 Ryan Gosling Hollywood heist movie Drive which starred Albert Brooks playing against type arsenic a villain, Carey Mulligan and a fresh-face Oscar Isaac. Pete Hammond reported astatine nan clip that Drive clocked an epic adjacent 15-minute opinionated ovation.

NEON has home connected Her Private Hell. A trailer dropped coming for nan pic which hits theaters connected July 24.

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