“It's a very autobiographical film,” director Nicolas Winding Refn has previously said of “Bronson,” his 2008 comedy-drama that launched Tom Hardy’s career to new levels and solidified Refn as an international cinematic force, and he reiterates that point when I first meet him on the back patio of LA institution Cinefamily. “I made the film at a certain time of my life where we [Refn and wife Liv Corfixen] had our first child,” Refn explains. “I had crashed financially, and creatively I went through a lot of soul searching. It was very important that I was able to do that at a young age so I could carry it on my shoulders.”
After three further films and an intimate documentary made by Corfixen (“My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn”), audiences can understand Refn’s approach of “art as an act of violence” with the benefit of hindsight. He’s showing “Bronson” at Cinefamily for a specific reason —the film’s soundtrack is being re-released on vinyl and CD through Refn’s new...
