Pusher 1996 ★★★★

Watched Feb 23, 2012

A series of films I have been looking to catch up with for years, Nicolas Winding Refn's breakout Danish language film is a fairly usual drug dealer gets in over his head tale which is brightened up by a wonderful underlying sense of tension bubbling away under the surface throughout, not having one character who is all that likable and a kinetic visual style which does feel a bit 90's admittedly, a little bit Boyle circa Shallow Grave/Trainspotting I'd say, but as the formative working of a now master filmmaker, it's very worthwhile and watchable stuff and I look forward to seeing the sequels.

2 Comments

  • Glad you liked this, thought you might. The second one is better still. As a trilogy these films work brilliantly giving different characters the lead which gives each film a new perspective. Im not sure that makes sense but hopefully when you watch the other two you will see what I mean.

  • Agreed. The trilogy definitely improves as they go along. It's been a couple years, but the third one has to be my favorite.

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