We need more filmmakers like Refn

Only God Forgives was a strange, lovely and highly original film. Very enigmatic, very unpredictable, quite funny and shocking. We need more filmmakers like Refn who refrain from delivering the same cookie cutter product every couple of years. His associative style of filmmaking is a complete singularity in today's film industry. Refn is a true artist. He took a real risk with Only God Forgives. It clearly had the potential to piss off a lot of people who had liked his previous film Drive. And it DID piss off a lot of people.

And now he's directing a sex thriller.

I think he could be the modern day Kubrick. He needs to work with higher budgets though and he needs to focus his power on creating a real masterpiece. So far, his films have been very original and very good, but not brilliant yet like Kubrick's.

I have great hopes for him. He's probably my fave director working today.

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Directors I like: Kubrick, Bergman, Godard, Pasolini, Wilder, Welles, Tarkovsky, Lynch, Refn