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Director

Nicolas Winding Refn

Denmark · Copenhagen

The stylist of neon and violence, obsessed with the beautiful surfaces of cruelty. His films are fever dreams of color and bodies — stripped of dialogue, swollen with sensation, where aesthetic precision becomes its own moral statement.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →

I grew up on Italian horror films, and Lucio Fulci was a very big part of that. The way he constructed images, the atmosphere in films like The Beyond and Zombi 2, left a huge impression on me.

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