Nordling here.
DRIVE was my favorite movie of 2011, so I'm very excited to see Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's next collaboration, ONLY GOD FORGIVES, due for release sometime this year. There are rumors that it might play Cannes if Refn finishes editing it in time, but no concrete word as of yet. In the meantime, here's a picture, courtesy of Yahoo, of Gosling, and it looks like he's having a pretty bad day. Here's the pic:
The movie is about Gosling's character, Julian, who is a retired hoodlum and kickboxer living in Bangkok, who has to get back into the criminal life when his brother is murdered by Thailand police. Here's a more detailed synopsis if you're wanting spoilers (thanks to SlashFilm):
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.
