For the first time in nearly a decade, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn returns to the screen. This time, he’s bringing to life a neon journey in Hell–though whether it is physical or metaphorical, you’ll have to watch and see.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.”
As the film prepares to premiere out of competition at Cannes, Neon has released first looks at the film, including an official teaser. Refn returns to a landscape that has changed drastically since his last film, and he looks to be exploring how to navigate that world now.
Speaking with IndieWire recently, Refn said, “Here, now–not having done a movie in ten years practically–to go back and make a movie in a time where cinema has really shifted compared to 10 years ago. So much has happened to cinema that it’s almost like entering a strange forest where it’s all a bit inconcrete. It’s hard to even define what the ecosystem is even like. And the power of the internet essentially driving everything and being the backbone of everything. Well, it’s a new playing field … But the idea of creativity is still the same. It’s just the rules are a little bit different, but the aspirations are the same. And how do you navigate through that?”
Watch the teaser below
The film stars Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton as the American GI. Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Diego Calva co-star. Refn wrote the screenplay with Esti Giordani and also produces the film alongside Lene Børglum, Christina Erritzøe, Takuma Takasaki, and Kimberly Willming.
Neon will release the film in theaters on July 24.
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