Nicolas Winding Refn has become one of the most polarizing filmmakers working today, and I completely understand why. Early in his career, with the gritty, brutally realistic Pusher trilogy, he established himself as a gifted crime filmmaker with an eye for violence and atmosphere.
Then came Drive, the movie that launched him into the cinematic stratosphere and earned him the Best Director prize at Cannes. It was stylish, emotional, hypnotic, funny, heartbreaking, and incredibly violent. It also marked the point where Refn fully embraced the dreamlike aesthetic that has come to define his work.
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