Tom Charity

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The Pusher Trilogy

Maybe Denmark’s best filmmaker (discuss), Nicolas Winding Refn scored a home run with his debut feature, Pusher (1996), and returned to the Copenhagen underworld for two further installments eight and nine years on. Taken together, the trilogy embodies a hardcore punk existentialism that would make Søren Kierkegaard proud, or nauseated,......