Nicolas Winding Refn: "I don't make crime films"

November 7, 2006 - 1:00am — GreenCineStaff

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was where I really saw film as an art form."

Nicolas Winding Refn made an international splash with his 1996 debut feature Pusher, a grungy thriller set in the tawdry but volatile criminal underworld of drug dealers, petty criminals and prostitutes in Denmark. The jittery style and fascination with the mundane, unglamorous street reality of a drug dealer whose ambition lands him in serious debt to an unforgiving crime boss made the film a big hit in Europe and launched the career of the young director. Eight years later, Refn returned to the wellspring for a pair sequels, each following a supporting character from the original film as they wade through the same social cesspool years later.

The return was not completely by choice. In the interim, he had put not only passion but also his own finances on the line for his independently produced American debut Fear X. The haunting drama of an emotionally numb security guard (played with suppressed desperation by John Turturro) obsessively studying surveillance tapes to find some reason for his wife's random murder was critically hailed but abandoned by its distributor when it failed to find an audience. It wound up arriving straight to video in most cities. Refn returned to Denmark deeply in debt and in need of a commercial success and the Pusher sequels were born. (Phie Ambo's documentary Gambler tells the entire story in great detail.)

Refn was honored as an "Emerging Master" at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival. The three Pusher films had just been picked up by Magnolia for American distribution and Refn was in an easy-going mood when we met one Sunday in May to discuss the Pusher trilogy and Fear X, the labor of love that put him in debt and unfairly remains in the shadow of his more popular gangster-grunge thrillers.

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