With the festival only a week away, marketing material has started to arrive, and The Playlist found the full director's statement and some new photos in the press notes for the film. Little Women9.
If it’s possible to overact while barely blinking, Ryan Gosling achieves it in Only God Forgives, his second film, after the delirious Drive, with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
I think it even gets its own, red spotlight. And here’s where things get tricky, because there’s also a level of knowingness at work. Blinded by Light7. If a movie is aware of its exploitation and perhaps even conflicted about it, does that mean it’s no longer being exploitative?
Your grammar is awful Alex! Oh, we’re not done yet. One that I, at least, thinks that it deserves some re-evaluation. When one night comes and Billy indulges too far into his taste for violence and misogyny, and is himself murdered by his victim’s father, Julian realizes that he is expected to discharge the gangster’s ultimate responsibility: revenge. I suppose we’re supposed to care, but here (unlike in Drive) Gosling is little more than another element of the production design.
Yet even if that’s the case, there’s something hypocritical to the entire project.
When Julian has to go for dinner with his mother, he clearly anticipates it will be an occasion in which Crystal will pitilessly humiliate him about his cowardice (and the size of his genitals).
In Drive, Driver is defined by his function. Once Upon a Time3. ( Log Out / I’m not so sure, and Only God Forgives isn’t compelling enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt.
The cinematographer, ... Julian tentatively reaches his right arm into the void, only to have it get lopped off by Chang just as Mai reaches orgasm. My apologies. Pitiless, racist and given to comparing the sizes of her sons’ penises (yes, there are incestuous undertones), she swoops into town and initiates a showdown between her unmitigated evil and Chang’s deranged justice. Only God Forgives has a brutal beginning, in which Julian’s brother Billy (Tom Burke) goes on a bender of horrific sexual violence.
In his previous film, Drive (2011), his unnamed hero was elevated into a superhero over the course of the film, while the film itself made use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.
Marriage Story5. When the violence comes in the film, it does so in ear-punching thunder claps — fetishized scenes of bodily multination that are often prolonged, the camera merciless and unblinking, intensifying the sensation of being trapped inside someone else’s nightmare, of which, I would say, push it away from being gratuitous. But where does that leave Julian? And while still battling both, it leads Julian — clenched and unhappy in the three-piece suit he has put on for a dinner date with his mother, and never takes off — realizes he has to challenge Chang to a fight. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Drive, from its hot-pink titles to its casting of Christina Hendricks, felt like the apotheosis of Refn’s lurid style, the high point just before it tipped over into self parody. Peanut Butter Falcon8. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2014) draws influence from a variety of complex sources. And it’s understandable that the film both sent some people running for the exits, and others bowing down in praise. When it came time for Refn to deliver on a follow-up, he reunited with his Drive front-man Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives, a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad crime film set in Bangkok that delivered as one of the most divisive Cannes responses in recent years (if you’re a fan of the critical aggregators, the film holds a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 on Metacritic). The Thai capital's look is meant to evoke sleaze and corruption, yet it comes across, like the film itself, as … For Sama10. And all too often. 191710. So he brings along as his date the prostitute for whom he is a regular: Maï (Yayaying Rhatha Phongam). In "Only God Forgives," the director goes even further to suggest there is elegance to brutality. Only God Forgives could be read as an act of meta self-indictment, in which a visiting filmmaker acknowledges his exploitation of another culture by punishing the Western bloodsuckers who populate his story.
Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. (There’s a free term paper on vagina dentata waiting to be written there.) Both Chang and Chrystal are undeniably almost mythic-like creatures; Chang almost a telepathic Machiavel with sadist tendencies; and Crystal is practically Julian’s God and Devil all at once, his church in a sense.
faces of contemporary (especially mainstream) cinema, we have very few true provocateurs working in the game today. "Another actor was supposed to play Julian but pulled out close to shooting. How about that headline instead? Change ), on In Defense Of: Only God Forgives (2013).
Alex's Top 10 - 20191.
With 14 posts a day mistakes happen, but I'm happy to fix them.
The IrishmanClick Here for Thoughts, Add FS to your Feedly updates: click here. Both brothers are naturally angry and violent, though in keeping his feelings in check, Julian is, of course, by far the more unsettling one. And with those corridors there’s also Larry Smith’s lavish cinematography that holds voyeurism and haunting in the same hand, and Beth Mickle’s intricate production design. That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop. That is, of course, a very vast obstacle but when I was writing the film, I was going through some very existential times in my life - we were expecting our second child and it was a difficult pregnancy - and the idea of having a character who wants to fight God without knowing why very much appealed to me. The film centers on Julian (Gosling), the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. The final scene of Only God Forgives has Julian raising his arms for Chang, who brings down his sword to cut them off. Do you have and/or need an editor? The film’s both hearty applause and impassioned boos still holds to this day, with the latter seeming to be a lot louder, with many calling the film “slow and dull” or “needlessly brutal and showy.” And while I can see some validation in some of those remarks, this ultraviolent, creepy, neon sheened enriched-uranium cake of pulp simply has too much to salivate over for me to simply and passionately dismiss. When the answer comes, then, we must backtrack our lives in order to find the question.
Even after he’s de-prettified – during an indulgent and arbitrary fight match with Chang – the movie fetishizes Gosling’s swollen eye. The Lighthouse4. Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. With hindsight I can't imagine another actor playing this role.
To say that provocateurs are prone to being divisive might be the most redundant statement… ever? And however wild that (literally) sounds, Only God Forgives has genuine moments of subtlety to go along with the big over-the-top moments. Yet that and every other affectation – his slow walk, his curt speech, his stoicism while watching a prostitute masturbate – is a minimalist way of calling attention to itself. Tell that to the guy who just had his hands lopped off. Only God Forgives is only going to be (remotely) pleasurable to those who are curious fans of the director's work, or those who indulge in arthouse films. That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop.
This itself is, of course, very existential because faith is based on the need for a higher answer but most of the time, we don't know what the question is.
I respect your rational approach to comments, Alex.
Perhaps Gosling thought this was the only way to stand out in what is otherwise a gonzo indulgence of colored lights, thrumming music and “shock” violence. There was originally another scene scripted where an armless Julian is fed by Mai, signaling something of a happy ending for the character, but it wasn't shot. Chang’s handling of the matter brings someone else to Bangkok: Billy and Julian’s mother, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas). And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. This is a very violent, but bizarrely infernal creation, an entire created world of gripping fear. The Specials6.
With hindsight, I am able to see the similarities between Chang and One Eye in Valhalla Rising, and Driver in Drive - all are rooted in fairytale mythology and have difficulties living in the everyday world. It’s the impassive Chang who first discovered Billy’s victim and for enigmatic reasons of his own, created the situation in which Julian found himself agonizingly incapable of that paycheck his mother expects. In a way, Only God Forgives is like an accumulation of all the films I've made so far. Sorry, new comments are no longer allowed. Now I consider this a blessing because it allowed Ryan and me to continue our collaboration," Refn says.
With the festival only a week away, marketing material has started to arrive, and The Playlist found the full director's statement and some new photos in the press notes for the film. Little Women9.
If it’s possible to overact while barely blinking, Ryan Gosling achieves it in Only God Forgives, his second film, after the delirious Drive, with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
I think it even gets its own, red spotlight. And here’s where things get tricky, because there’s also a level of knowingness at work. Blinded by Light7. If a movie is aware of its exploitation and perhaps even conflicted about it, does that mean it’s no longer being exploitative?
Your grammar is awful Alex! Oh, we’re not done yet. One that I, at least, thinks that it deserves some re-evaluation. When one night comes and Billy indulges too far into his taste for violence and misogyny, and is himself murdered by his victim’s father, Julian realizes that he is expected to discharge the gangster’s ultimate responsibility: revenge. I suppose we’re supposed to care, but here (unlike in Drive) Gosling is little more than another element of the production design.
Yet even if that’s the case, there’s something hypocritical to the entire project.
When Julian has to go for dinner with his mother, he clearly anticipates it will be an occasion in which Crystal will pitilessly humiliate him about his cowardice (and the size of his genitals).
In Drive, Driver is defined by his function. Once Upon a Time3. ( Log Out / I’m not so sure, and Only God Forgives isn’t compelling enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt.
The cinematographer, ... Julian tentatively reaches his right arm into the void, only to have it get lopped off by Chang just as Mai reaches orgasm. My apologies. Pitiless, racist and given to comparing the sizes of her sons’ penises (yes, there are incestuous undertones), she swoops into town and initiates a showdown between her unmitigated evil and Chang’s deranged justice. Only God Forgives has a brutal beginning, in which Julian’s brother Billy (Tom Burke) goes on a bender of horrific sexual violence.
In his previous film, Drive (2011), his unnamed hero was elevated into a superhero over the course of the film, while the film itself made use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.
Marriage Story5. When the violence comes in the film, it does so in ear-punching thunder claps — fetishized scenes of bodily multination that are often prolonged, the camera merciless and unblinking, intensifying the sensation of being trapped inside someone else’s nightmare, of which, I would say, push it away from being gratuitous. But where does that leave Julian? And while still battling both, it leads Julian — clenched and unhappy in the three-piece suit he has put on for a dinner date with his mother, and never takes off — realizes he has to challenge Chang to a fight. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Drive, from its hot-pink titles to its casting of Christina Hendricks, felt like the apotheosis of Refn’s lurid style, the high point just before it tipped over into self parody. Peanut Butter Falcon8. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2014) draws influence from a variety of complex sources. And it’s understandable that the film both sent some people running for the exits, and others bowing down in praise. When it came time for Refn to deliver on a follow-up, he reunited with his Drive front-man Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives, a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad crime film set in Bangkok that delivered as one of the most divisive Cannes responses in recent years (if you’re a fan of the critical aggregators, the film holds a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 on Metacritic). The Thai capital's look is meant to evoke sleaze and corruption, yet it comes across, like the film itself, as … For Sama10. And all too often. 191710. So he brings along as his date the prostitute for whom he is a regular: Maï (Yayaying Rhatha Phongam). In "Only God Forgives," the director goes even further to suggest there is elegance to brutality. Only God Forgives could be read as an act of meta self-indictment, in which a visiting filmmaker acknowledges his exploitation of another culture by punishing the Western bloodsuckers who populate his story.
Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. (There’s a free term paper on vagina dentata waiting to be written there.) Both Chang and Chrystal are undeniably almost mythic-like creatures; Chang almost a telepathic Machiavel with sadist tendencies; and Crystal is practically Julian’s God and Devil all at once, his church in a sense.
faces of contemporary (especially mainstream) cinema, we have very few true provocateurs working in the game today. "Another actor was supposed to play Julian but pulled out close to shooting. How about that headline instead? Change ), on In Defense Of: Only God Forgives (2013).
Alex's Top 10 - 20191.
With 14 posts a day mistakes happen, but I'm happy to fix them.
The IrishmanClick Here for Thoughts, Add FS to your Feedly updates: click here. Both brothers are naturally angry and violent, though in keeping his feelings in check, Julian is, of course, by far the more unsettling one. And with those corridors there’s also Larry Smith’s lavish cinematography that holds voyeurism and haunting in the same hand, and Beth Mickle’s intricate production design. That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop. That is, of course, a very vast obstacle but when I was writing the film, I was going through some very existential times in my life - we were expecting our second child and it was a difficult pregnancy - and the idea of having a character who wants to fight God without knowing why very much appealed to me. The film centers on Julian (Gosling), the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. The final scene of Only God Forgives has Julian raising his arms for Chang, who brings down his sword to cut them off. Do you have and/or need an editor? The film’s both hearty applause and impassioned boos still holds to this day, with the latter seeming to be a lot louder, with many calling the film “slow and dull” or “needlessly brutal and showy.” And while I can see some validation in some of those remarks, this ultraviolent, creepy, neon sheened enriched-uranium cake of pulp simply has too much to salivate over for me to simply and passionately dismiss. When the answer comes, then, we must backtrack our lives in order to find the question.
Even after he’s de-prettified – during an indulgent and arbitrary fight match with Chang – the movie fetishizes Gosling’s swollen eye. The Lighthouse4. Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. With hindsight I can't imagine another actor playing this role.
To say that provocateurs are prone to being divisive might be the most redundant statement… ever? And however wild that (literally) sounds, Only God Forgives has genuine moments of subtlety to go along with the big over-the-top moments. Yet that and every other affectation – his slow walk, his curt speech, his stoicism while watching a prostitute masturbate – is a minimalist way of calling attention to itself. Tell that to the guy who just had his hands lopped off. Only God Forgives is only going to be (remotely) pleasurable to those who are curious fans of the director's work, or those who indulge in arthouse films. That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop.
This itself is, of course, very existential because faith is based on the need for a higher answer but most of the time, we don't know what the question is.
I respect your rational approach to comments, Alex.
Perhaps Gosling thought this was the only way to stand out in what is otherwise a gonzo indulgence of colored lights, thrumming music and “shock” violence. There was originally another scene scripted where an armless Julian is fed by Mai, signaling something of a happy ending for the character, but it wasn't shot. Chang’s handling of the matter brings someone else to Bangkok: Billy and Julian’s mother, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas). And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. This is a very violent, but bizarrely infernal creation, an entire created world of gripping fear. The Specials6.
With hindsight, I am able to see the similarities between Chang and One Eye in Valhalla Rising, and Driver in Drive - all are rooted in fairytale mythology and have difficulties living in the everyday world. It’s the impassive Chang who first discovered Billy’s victim and for enigmatic reasons of his own, created the situation in which Julian found himself agonizingly incapable of that paycheck his mother expects. In a way, Only God Forgives is like an accumulation of all the films I've made so far. Sorry, new comments are no longer allowed. Now I consider this a blessing because it allowed Ryan and me to continue our collaboration," Refn says.
I love what how he ends saying the enemy of creativity is "being safe" and I can't wait to see how his version of "a movie about a man who wants to fight God" turns out. But a twinge of conscience, or a twist of pain at the memory of those misdeeds which drove him from America in the first place, won’t let him kill. The Playlist also reminds us that Refn originally had Luke Evans set for the lead of Julian, before it went back to Gosling. The headline makes ZERO sense.
With the festival only a week away, marketing material has started to arrive, and The Playlist found the full director's statement and some new photos in the press notes for the film. Little Women9.
If it’s possible to overact while barely blinking, Ryan Gosling achieves it in Only God Forgives, his second film, after the delirious Drive, with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn.
I think it even gets its own, red spotlight. And here’s where things get tricky, because there’s also a level of knowingness at work. Blinded by Light7. If a movie is aware of its exploitation and perhaps even conflicted about it, does that mean it’s no longer being exploitative?
Your grammar is awful Alex! Oh, we’re not done yet. One that I, at least, thinks that it deserves some re-evaluation. When one night comes and Billy indulges too far into his taste for violence and misogyny, and is himself murdered by his victim’s father, Julian realizes that he is expected to discharge the gangster’s ultimate responsibility: revenge. I suppose we’re supposed to care, but here (unlike in Drive) Gosling is little more than another element of the production design.
Yet even if that’s the case, there’s something hypocritical to the entire project.
When Julian has to go for dinner with his mother, he clearly anticipates it will be an occasion in which Crystal will pitilessly humiliate him about his cowardice (and the size of his genitals).
In Drive, Driver is defined by his function. Once Upon a Time3. ( Log Out / I’m not so sure, and Only God Forgives isn’t compelling enough for me to give it the benefit of the doubt.
The cinematographer, ... Julian tentatively reaches his right arm into the void, only to have it get lopped off by Chang just as Mai reaches orgasm. My apologies. Pitiless, racist and given to comparing the sizes of her sons’ penises (yes, there are incestuous undertones), she swoops into town and initiates a showdown between her unmitigated evil and Chang’s deranged justice. Only God Forgives has a brutal beginning, in which Julian’s brother Billy (Tom Burke) goes on a bender of horrific sexual violence.
In his previous film, Drive (2011), his unnamed hero was elevated into a superhero over the course of the film, while the film itself made use of the Scorpion and the Frog fable.
Marriage Story5. When the violence comes in the film, it does so in ear-punching thunder claps — fetishized scenes of bodily multination that are often prolonged, the camera merciless and unblinking, intensifying the sensation of being trapped inside someone else’s nightmare, of which, I would say, push it away from being gratuitous. But where does that leave Julian? And while still battling both, it leads Julian — clenched and unhappy in the three-piece suit he has put on for a dinner date with his mother, and never takes off — realizes he has to challenge Chang to a fight. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Drive, from its hot-pink titles to its casting of Christina Hendricks, felt like the apotheosis of Refn’s lurid style, the high point just before it tipped over into self parody. Peanut Butter Falcon8. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives (2014) draws influence from a variety of complex sources. And it’s understandable that the film both sent some people running for the exits, and others bowing down in praise. When it came time for Refn to deliver on a follow-up, he reunited with his Drive front-man Ryan Gosling for Only God Forgives, a glitteringly strange, mesmeric and mad crime film set in Bangkok that delivered as one of the most divisive Cannes responses in recent years (if you’re a fan of the critical aggregators, the film holds a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 37 on Metacritic). The Thai capital's look is meant to evoke sleaze and corruption, yet it comes across, like the film itself, as … For Sama10. And all too often. 191710. So he brings along as his date the prostitute for whom he is a regular: Maï (Yayaying Rhatha Phongam). In "Only God Forgives," the director goes even further to suggest there is elegance to brutality. Only God Forgives could be read as an act of meta self-indictment, in which a visiting filmmaker acknowledges his exploitation of another culture by punishing the Western bloodsuckers who populate his story.
Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. (There’s a free term paper on vagina dentata waiting to be written there.) Both Chang and Chrystal are undeniably almost mythic-like creatures; Chang almost a telepathic Machiavel with sadist tendencies; and Crystal is practically Julian’s God and Devil all at once, his church in a sense.
faces of contemporary (especially mainstream) cinema, we have very few true provocateurs working in the game today. "Another actor was supposed to play Julian but pulled out close to shooting. How about that headline instead? Change ), on In Defense Of: Only God Forgives (2013).
Alex's Top 10 - 20191.
With 14 posts a day mistakes happen, but I'm happy to fix them.
The IrishmanClick Here for Thoughts, Add FS to your Feedly updates: click here. Both brothers are naturally angry and violent, though in keeping his feelings in check, Julian is, of course, by far the more unsettling one. And with those corridors there’s also Larry Smith’s lavish cinematography that holds voyeurism and haunting in the same hand, and Beth Mickle’s intricate production design. That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop. That is, of course, a very vast obstacle but when I was writing the film, I was going through some very existential times in my life - we were expecting our second child and it was a difficult pregnancy - and the idea of having a character who wants to fight God without knowing why very much appealed to me. The film centers on Julian (Gosling), the co-owner of a Muay Thai boxing club with his brother Billy (Tom Burke): an operation which is a front for selling drugs. The final scene of Only God Forgives has Julian raising his arms for Chang, who brings down his sword to cut them off. Do you have and/or need an editor? The film’s both hearty applause and impassioned boos still holds to this day, with the latter seeming to be a lot louder, with many calling the film “slow and dull” or “needlessly brutal and showy.” And while I can see some validation in some of those remarks, this ultraviolent, creepy, neon sheened enriched-uranium cake of pulp simply has too much to salivate over for me to simply and passionately dismiss. When the answer comes, then, we must backtrack our lives in order to find the question.
Even after he’s de-prettified – during an indulgent and arbitrary fight match with Chang – the movie fetishizes Gosling’s swollen eye. The Lighthouse4. Only God Forgives exerts an eerie and woozy grip right from the outset, with many nightmarish scenes of people walking down long, claustrophobic, purgatory-like corridors with pulsing displays of color, all while Cliff Martinez’s score of a delicate cacophony of tribal drums and wind chimes gives the film a foreboding, rhythmic pace. With hindsight I can't imagine another actor playing this role.
To say that provocateurs are prone to being divisive might be the most redundant statement… ever? And however wild that (literally) sounds, Only God Forgives has genuine moments of subtlety to go along with the big over-the-top moments. Yet that and every other affectation – his slow walk, his curt speech, his stoicism while watching a prostitute masturbate – is a minimalist way of calling attention to itself. Tell that to the guy who just had his hands lopped off. Only God Forgives is only going to be (remotely) pleasurable to those who are curious fans of the director's work, or those who indulge in arthouse films. That brings him to the attention of Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an older, vigilante cop.
This itself is, of course, very existential because faith is based on the need for a higher answer but most of the time, we don't know what the question is.
I respect your rational approach to comments, Alex.
Perhaps Gosling thought this was the only way to stand out in what is otherwise a gonzo indulgence of colored lights, thrumming music and “shock” violence. There was originally another scene scripted where an armless Julian is fed by Mai, signaling something of a happy ending for the character, but it wasn't shot. Chang’s handling of the matter brings someone else to Bangkok: Billy and Julian’s mother, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas). And in Only God Forgives, Chang is first of all defined by his enigmatic behaviour, to such an extent that he becomes a disembodied character, an 'it', defined not by his name but solely by his image. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. This is a very violent, but bizarrely infernal creation, an entire created world of gripping fear. The Specials6.
With hindsight, I am able to see the similarities between Chang and One Eye in Valhalla Rising, and Driver in Drive - all are rooted in fairytale mythology and have difficulties living in the everyday world. It’s the impassive Chang who first discovered Billy’s victim and for enigmatic reasons of his own, created the situation in which Julian found himself agonizingly incapable of that paycheck his mother expects. In a way, Only God Forgives is like an accumulation of all the films I've made so far. Sorry, new comments are no longer allowed. Now I consider this a blessing because it allowed Ryan and me to continue our collaboration," Refn says.
