Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ Ignites Fantasia’s 30th Edition as Hot Global Genre Titles Get Set to Stoke or Take Over the Mainstream

Fantasia International Film Festival opens its thirtieth edition on July sixteenth in Montreal, per Variety. Auteur Nicolas Winding Refn is receiving the Cheval Noir Career Achievement Award at the opening ceremony, then hosting the Canadian premiere of his latest film, 'Her Private Hell.' Described as sumptuously visceral and genre-defying, the work continues Refn's reputation for bold, unconventional cinema—the kind of filmmaking that Fantasia was built to champion.

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