A young criminal is forced to execute a bloody vengeance.

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In the streets of Bankok, two American brothers run a thai boxing club as a front for their drug trafficking. Bathed in violence, the eldest indulges his vicious urges one night by raping and murdering a young woman, an unforgivable crime that leads to his own end and sparks a brutal escalation of hate and retribution. His brother is now forced to avenge his death by their chilling, crime-lord mother.

With Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) directed a fascinating film, by all its aspects. The sumptuous, extremely studied visuals lock the spectator in an almost claustrophobic tension, equally worrying and beautiful, a feeling made even stronger by the film's mesmerizing soundtrack. Refn crafts every single shot with extreme confidence as he embraces the inventiveness of his mise-en-scène and the brutality of the world he presents to us: a world in which terrifying characters go by their sordid affairs, stereotypical but complex, with mysterious and intriguing relationships. Only God Forgives is as visceral as it is measured, as painful as it is intense.