My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

2014

★★★½ Liked

Basically a DVD extra for ONLY GOD FORGIVES, but a pretty worthwhile one. I can't recall the last time I saw a director this honest about his insecurities (he worries his movie isn’t very good, and complains that he’s wasted years of his life on it) or his cynical calculations about audience tastes (“They want more of the same,” he moans when talking about the pressure to follow DRIVE with something equally commercial). Refn doesn’t come off that well -- he’s moody and self-obsessed and indecisive -- which is kind of interesting given the fact that his wife is the director. If my wife made a documentary that was this revealing and unflattering, I’d be furious. But I guess he got the last laugh; he dedicated THE NEON DEMON to her.

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