Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives, Drive) returns to the City of Dreams for an incisive and unsettling look at its intense and often vicious culture of beauty in the horror thriller The Neon Demon’ When aspiring model Jesse, played by an entrancing Elle Fanning (Maleficent, Super 8’, moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
★★★★ “Winding Refn’s most aesthetically ambitious film yet” - Christopher Hooton, The Independent
★★★★ “Less ‘Prêt-à-Porter’ with teeth than ‘The Company of Wolves’ from hell and in heels” - Mark Kermode’s Film of the Week, The Observer
