‘Her Private Hell’ Review: More Like Our Public Anguish, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Ghastly Thriller Despises Its Audience
Nicolas Winding Refn's latest film, 'Her Private Hell,' has been met with overwhelmingly negative reviews. Critics describe the film as a tedious experience filled with ghoulish visuals and a lack of coherent storytelling. The performances are criticized for being lifeless, contributing to what many consider one of the most miserable viewing experiences in recent years.
- ▪The film is Refn's first feature since 'The Neon Demon' a decade ago.
- ▪Critics have labeled the film as a 'ghastly thriller' that despises its audience.
- ▪The narrative features a serial killer known as The Leather Man, who targets women in a disturbing manner.
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“Her Private Hell“? More like our public misery. If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe. His first feature since “The Neon Demon” 10 years ago and after allegedly dying for 25 minutes in 2023, the neon-drowned, anguishingly languid and abstruse “Her Private Hell” feels like you’re dying (and very, very slowly) for a soporific hour and 49 minutes. With ghoulish visuals, a coughed-up script in which Refn appears to pastiche only himself, and performances that even at their best just die onscreen under the portentous weight of the filmmaker’s dreadfully detached vision, it’s one of the most miserable theatrical viewing experiences in years.
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