Pusher (1996)
Country: DK
Technical: col 110m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drashæk, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis:
A week in the life of a drug pusher in Copenhagen: owing his supplier 50,000 kroner he sees the possibility of making a killing on a deal with a Swedish contact; but the police ambush the handover, the drugs are lost and he now owes 230,000.
Review:
Filmed handheld, close-up and in dimly lit interiors or at night, this typically bold first feature certainly has the look to match its squalid setting. The characters are largely selfish and bigoted with few horizons beyond their dead-end existence; the endearing culinary interests of the suppliers constitute an exception but their ruthlessness pushes the antihero Frank to his greater excesses. Grim viewing, it paints a world in which the pusher's survival depends on his constant activity, so that the final shot of frozen indecision speaks like a death knell.
Country: DK
Technical: col 110m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drashæk, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis:
A week in the life of a drug pusher in Copenhagen: owing his supplier 50,000 kroner he sees the possibility of making a killing on a deal with a Swedish contact; but the police ambush the handover, the drugs are lost and he now owes 230,000.
Review:
Filmed handheld, close-up and in dimly lit interiors or at night, this typically bold first feature certainly has the look to match its squalid setting. The characters are largely selfish and bigoted with few horizons beyond their dead-end existence; the endearing culinary interests of the suppliers constitute an exception but their ruthlessness pushes the antihero Frank to his greater excesses. Grim viewing, it paints a world in which the pusher's survival depends on his constant activity, so that the final shot of frozen indecision speaks like a death knell.
Country: DK
Technical: col 110m
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drashæk, Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis:
A week in the life of a drug pusher in Copenhagen: owing his supplier 50,000 kroner he sees the possibility of making a killing on a deal with a Swedish contact; but the police ambush the handover, the drugs are lost and he now owes 230,000.
Review:
Filmed handheld, close-up and in dimly lit interiors or at night, this typically bold first feature certainly has the look to match its squalid setting. The characters are largely selfish and bigoted with few horizons beyond their dead-end existence; the endearing culinary interests of the suppliers constitute an exception but their ruthlessness pushes the antihero Frank to his greater excesses. Grim viewing, it paints a world in which the pusher's survival depends on his constant activity, so that the final shot of frozen indecision speaks like a death knell.