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This weekend’s movie slate centers on The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott’s post‑apocalyptic drama starring Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley in theaters, alongside the buzzy live‑action/animated Coyote vs. Acme. At home, you can rent Her Private Hell (and Motor City); and for streaming, check Netflix for The Whisper Man, with Desert Warrior arriving on Hulu as another option.
In a Hollywood Reporter profile, Sophie Thatcher explains why she’s moving from predictable franchise work to offbeat, artistically ambitious projects—Heretic, Companion, and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell—while continuing to shoot Yellowjackets’ final season. She describes thriving on avant-garde, visually immersive cinema, living off the grid in upstate New York, pursuing music, and hoping to direct one day, all as she leans into playing outsiders rather than fitting a traditional box.
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey finishes its first week near $200 million at the domestic box office, with previews for Hadestown, Motor City, and Her Private Hell signaling continued momentum and counter-programming for the weekend.
This weekend brings theatrical release Her Private Hell, with rent-to-watch options including Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu and Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, plus The Dink streaming on Apple TV+. Additional streaming picks include Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie and other titles across platforms, offering a mix of indie prestige, blockbuster rentals, and lighthearted comedies.
At Cannes, Sophie Thatcher details sleepless nights promoting Her Private Hell, the intense, mentor-like bond with Nicolas Winding Refn, and how the film’s stylized, studio-driven world pushed her to improvise and seek more European directing projects, like Wim Wenders.
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to feature filmmaking with Her Private Hell, a visually lavish Cannes premiere presented out of competition. The film blends a neon-lit hotel setting, a demonic Leather Man, and a Tokyo sequence to homage giallo and Brian De Palma, all wrapped in Refn’s signature elevated-genre sensibility. While the production design and cinematography are arresting, the narrative often feels overindulgent and contrived, making the experience punishingly slow for non–diehard fans. The 1 hour 49 minute film marks a ten-year gap since his last feature and reinforces Refn’s status as a polarizing auteur whose obsession with style can outpace storytelling.
Nicolas Winding Refn cried at Cannes as he recounted a heart surgery in which he was dead for more than 20 minutes, describing it as a second chance and vowing to expand horizons for kids. The director’s latest film, Her Private Hell, received a 12-minute standing ovation at its world premiere and will open July 24 via Neon.
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn broke down at Cannes while discussing his near-death experience: he was told he had died for about 25 minutes due to a leaking heart, underwent emergency surgery two weeks later, and joked that a surgeon like Tom Cruise could “fix me with his hands” and revive me with electricity. He said the life-altering event gave him a renewed purpose and a chance to start over as his new film Her Private Hell premiered at Cannes to a seven-minute ovation, marking his return to feature directing after a decade.
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to cinema with Her Private Hell at Cannes (out of competition), a surreal, visually lush experience that emphasizes mood and Pino Donaggio’s emotive score over traditional storytelling. Set in a dreamlike, neon-lit megacity, the film follows Elle (Sophie Thatcher) as a high-stakes film shoot spirals into mysticism, murder, and the Leather Man, with Private K (Charles Melton) appearing like a spectral avenger. Echoing Bergman’s Persona and 2001-era imagery, the movie is a bold, polarizing blend of style and ambiguity that marks Refn’s first feature since Neon Demon and his near-fatal heart condition, signaling a daring, if divisive, new direction for his work.
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell, a surreal, enigmatic horror-thriller set in a misty, futuristic city. The film follows an actress (Elle) navigating offscreen drama, a volatile cast, and a brutal shoot (reported 85 takes for a single scene) as co-stars Havana Rose Liu and Kristine Froseth figure into a tense dynamic, with Leather Man stalking the city. Refn quotes a near-death experience as reigniting his creative drive for the project.
Nicolas Winding Refn unveiled Her Private Hell at Cannes to a seven-minute standing ovation despite it premiering out of competition; led by Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, the provocative thriller follows a tortured star and a vengeance-seeking Army private as Refn used the moment to reflect on cinema’s power after a near-death experience, with Neon planning a July 24 U.S. release.
At Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn's psychedelic sci‑fi drama Her Private Hell earned a 12‑minute standing ovation at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the second-longest of the night; the film, out of competition, stars Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu and Charles Melton. Refn, who recently survived heart surgery, used his speech to champion cinema as a unifying force and paid a nod to composer Pino Donaggio, as Neon sets a July 24 U.S. release date.
Nicolas Winding Refn makes a high-profile return to cinema with a neon-drenched teaser for Her Private Hell, starring Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton. Premiering out of competition at Cannes, the plot follows a troubled young woman and an American GI as they navigate a mist-enshrouded metropolis in a venture that roams between rescue and hellish peril; Neon will release the film in theaters on July 24, 2026.