Her Private Hell by Nicolas Winding Refn is a contemporary work of art. A two-faced definition, on the one hand is indisputably a work of creative art, visually impacting and engaging, on the other hand it is difficult to decipher, subject to interpretations and with the need to have a sort of interpretative guideline by the author, as often happens in front of contemporary art paintings.
The film has been in the hall since 1 October distributed by MUBI but it has to be said clearly that it is not a film for everyone, that it is necessary to understand that you will spend money to go to see something that is all concentrated in the mind of his author and director, that puts it on stage in his own way and does nothing to meet the viewer. Her Private Hell is a circus film, with a few theatres scattered in the biggest cities, from festivals.
Her Private Hell tells the story of a girl, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) who is filming a film with her father and stepmother, a friend of her who married her father. She would like to get closer to the undeniable visionary father, he would like the two women to regain lost tune. In all this the futurist city closest to the world of videogames than to the real one, is immersed in a fake fog that makes everything even more imponderable, a constant sense of insecurity and precariousness in which existence is immersed. In parallel, in a seemingly indefinite time, in an equally incomprehensible space, the story of an American soldier (Charles Melton) who lost his daughter develops.
The film is immersed in a dreamy world, all characters are exaggerations of features of reality. Her Private Hell is built as a continuous sum of states of consciousness, emotions and feelings between fear, euphoria and joy. Everything exists, nothing seems real. Her Private Hell is an experience that will divide the viewer, there are those who will appreciate the visionary ability, who will hate it for the difficulty of following a linear plot with characters that come out, disappear and have difficult behaviors to decipher. The whole film is recited constantly undertone, as a continuous hypnotic chant. Her Private Hell could be safely projected on a continuous cycle in a contemporary art museum as an example of visual, visionary and innovative work. Refn plays with lights, with colors, creates a city made of colored neon that is simultaneously real and unreal.
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