Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Gets 12-Minute Ovation In Cannes

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

The 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 Barbarella-like sci-fi movie. But a killer by the name of Leather Man lurks.

Refn 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.

NEON has domestic on Her Private Hell. A trailer dropped today for the pic which hits theaters on July 24.