{"id":806195,"date":"2026-05-18T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/806195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:55:14","slug":"nicolas-winding-refns-her-private-hell-gets-12-minute-ovation-in-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/806195\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Gets 12-Minute Ovation In Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMonday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn<\/a> at Cannes<\/a> and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell<\/a>, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night<\/a> after Fjord. <\/p>\n

\n\tThose are the longest plaudits of the festival, though Refn and cast were doing some cheerleading and pumping the crowd up after the lights went up, which likely prolonged the celebration. Star Sophie Thatcher was moved to tears. Note, we begin timing ovations at the start of clapping when the credits roll all the way until the end. <\/p>\n

\n\tRefn in a near three minute speech at the end shared how he was dead for 25 minutes (due to a heart surgery). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat changes you. When I was brought back to life with electricity, that I\u2019m alive again; I only have 25 years of my life to live. But I\u2019m going to make damn use of that to live life to the fullest. To make this film again and be back at Cannes where I came from is a huge step for mankind,\u201d said Refn to laughs. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe gave a shoutout to 90-year old composer Pino Donaggio who was present. <\/p>\n

\n\tRefn turned political: \u201cWhen all the politicians f**ked up the world, and blown up all the countries and stole all our money, the only thing that\u2019s left is art. Now that everything is so unequal, and everyone is fighting and yelling at each other, the only thing that brings everyone together is going to the movies, sitting together and seeing a movie. That\u2019s why we need to make cinema. Now because we can watch cinema on a f**king iPhone \u2013I do that\u2013 because cinema is about coming together as a collective experience which is what human beings do. Yeah, we\u2019re just human beings. So this year one, day one, cinema is the future, cinema is alive, it\u2019s resurrected.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe runners-up ovation-wise at this point in the festival are James Gray\u2019s\u00a0Paper Tiger, which last night\u00a0got a 10-minute salute<\/a>, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s\u00a0All of a Sudden, which on Friday\u00a0had them clapping for 11 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie stars Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu, Kristine Froseth and Charles Melton in a tale that begins at a swanky futuristic LA-like metropolis hotel. A group of model-esque women congregate, about to make a\u00a0Barbarella-like sci-fi movie. But a killer by the name of Leather Man lurks.<\/p>\n

\n\tRefn won Best Director in his Cannes debut for his 2011 Ryan Gosling Hollywood heist movie Drive which starred Albert Brooks playing against type as a villain, Carey Mulligan and a fresh-face Oscar Isaac. Pete Hammond reported at the time that Drive clocked an epic near 15-minute standing ovation. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNEON has domestic on Her Private Hell. A trailer dropped today for the pic which hits theaters on July 24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":806196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[6345,297566,171,327902,327903,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-806195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-her-private-hell","tag-nicolas-winding-refn","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116598284331554470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}