#FIRSTLOOK: “ONLY GOD FORGIVES” CLIP UNVEILED AT CANNES

Kristin Scott Thomas, you naughty Girl you!  The Weinstein Co. unveiled Clips from a few of their upcoming Marquee releases at Cannes on Friday and shocking just about everybody is Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Follow-up to 2010’s excellent Drive.

The Thriller, Only God Forgives, competes in-competition at the Festival this year and shot entirely in Bangkok, the Film centers around Julian (Ryan Gosling), a Drug Smuggler whose life  is complicated further by her Mother’s (Thomas) mission to find who killed his older Brother, Billy (Tom Burke).

“You know what he does for a living right? Heroine, Cocaine… that’s where the money comes. That’s how he can afford to pay you to f*** him”, she says to the Girl her Son brings home to her, Mai (Rhatha Phongam), in quite possibly her most shocking role to date.  Believe me, it takes a lot to shock me and this is pretty darn shocking and might I add, completely NSFW.  I can just imagine the room of international Journalists gasping at the Subtitles!

Watch the Clip below:

eOne Films releases Only God Forgives on  July 19, 2013.

Also premiering at Cannes was a Clip of Nicole Kidman in Grace of Monaco, presented by the Oscar Winner herself, which we’re all dying to see. This already is looking like quite the year for Idris Elba, who was seen in a Clip of Madela, also starring in sure-fire Blockbuster Hit this Summer, Pacific Rim.

(Photo/video credit: The Weinstein Co.)

#CANNES: RAVES FOR SOFIA COPPOLA’S “THE BLING RING”

This delights me so! After premiering earlier today at the Cannes Film Festival, Sofia Coppola‘s latest effort The Bling Ring, based on true events surrounding a group of Teens who masterminded the burglary of several Celebrity homes, debuts with plenty of praise! I admit, things were looking a bit iffy there with 2010’s plodding Somewhere.

Here’s what some of the Critics are saying about The Bling Ring:

“An unexpected pleasure” – The Guardian

“Sofia Coppola’s most provocative Film yet” – Entertainment Weekly

“The Parents are awful, the Teenagers are repulsive and the Celebrities are removed from reality, but no one gets away clean in Sofia Coppola‘s brilliant Movie” – The Wrap

“The acting is so authentic that it takes a while to differentiate the girls… As such, it will attain a certain stature itself as a Cultural Artifact but without stirring significant interest artistically or commercially.” – The Hollywood Reporter

“Though it lacks the name cast and self-consciously outre style of another recent girls-gone-wild opus, Spring Breakers, this lively and fascinating pic should score well with its target hipster demo…” – Variety

As an aside, we saw Coppola last week at the Met Gala in New York City with Marc Jacobs. More on that here!

Have you seen The Bling Ring‘s Trailer yet?  Watch it here.

eOne Films releases The Bling Ring on June 21, 2013.

(Photo/video credit: A24)