Mubi has snatched up Nicolas Winding Refn’s upcoming feature Her Private Hell, taking all rights for the film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Spain and Latin America. Mubi said it will announce its release plans for the film in the near future.
The hotly-anticipated film is Refn’s first feature since The Neon Demon in 2016.
The Tokyo-set thriller, stars Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets), Charles Melton (May December), Havana Rose Liu (Hal & Harper), Kristine Froseth (The First Lady), Diego Calva (Babylon), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool and Wolverine), Aoi Yamada (Perfect Days) and Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car). Plot details are being kept under wraps. Neon has pre-bought North American rights ahead of the film’s premiere, widely rumored to be in Cannes this year.
Refn has had several features premiere on the Croisette, including The Neon Demon, Only God Forgives (2013), and Drive (2011), which won best director for the Danish auteur. Refn has spent the past decade working in television, making the trippy crime drama Too Old to Die Young (2019), starring Miles Teller, for Amazon, dark Danish fable Copenhagen Cowboy for Netflix, and, in a surprising move for the radical avant garde director, producing the children series The Famous Five (2023) for the BBC and German broadcaster ZDF.
Mubi’s recent and upcoming slate includes several of last year’s Cannes favorites, including Joachim Trier’s Oscar-winning Sentimental Value, Kleber de Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, afar
Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, and Akinola Davies’ My Father’s Shadow. The global streamer recently picked up multiple territories on Markus Schleinzer’s black-and-white period drama Rose, which premiered in Berlin and won best actress for star Sandra Hüller (Project Hail Mary).
