Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE is a powerhouse of a movie with Ryan Gosling giving an equally dynamic and powerful performance. Aided by some brilliant supporting roles and an incredible soundtrack, the film will go down as a classic with violence that harks back to what even the best, the 1970s, had to offer.
Here we have the first image from Gosling and Winding Refn’s follow-up, and from the official synopsis below, we could be on course for another brutal roller-coaster classic. ONLY GOD FORGIVES also stars Kristen Scott Thomas, Yayaying and Vithaya Pansringarm.
Bangkok. Ten years ago Julian killed a cop and went on the run. Now he manages a Thai boxing club as a front for a drugs operation. Respected in the criminal underworld, deep inside, he feels empty.
When Julian’s brother murders a prostitute the police call on retired cop Chang – the Angel of Vengeance. Chang allows the father to kill his daughter’s murderer, then ‘restores order’ by chopping off the man’s right hand.
Julian’s mother Jenna – the head of a powerful criminal organization – arrives in Bangkok to collect her son’s body. She dispatches Julian to find his killers and ‘raise hell’.
Increasingly obsessed with the Angel of Vengeance, Julian challenges him to a boxing match, hoping that by defeating him he might find spiritual release… but Chang triumphs. A furious Jenna plots revenge and the stage is set for a bloody journey through betrayal and vengeance towards a final confrontation and the possibility of redemption.
Source: Wildbunch
