You’ve already hopefully seen the U.K. and international trailers for Nicolas Winding Refn’s brilliant and deliriously good, “Bronson,” starring Tom Hardy; a demented, absurd and amazing portrait of one of England’s most notorious criminals.
The trailer is…
The good thing is if you haven’t seen it you’re likely going to love it and be totally sold on it. If you have seen the film, it reveals a bit too much, is much more fragmented and disjointed than the actual film and sells it a bit more rock n’ roll than it really is.
But we suppose that’s a good thing as it’ll get asses in seats when the film arrives on September 25. However, it does come out in limited release and Magnet, a subdivision of Magnolia, does release their films in a circle much smaller than even Summit, Sony Pictures Classics or even some of the other indie mini-majors that film bloggers seem to be constantly bitching at for not far-wide releasing pictures (the reality is the market for them is sadly not as big as they’d think, but that’s an entirely different story). Expect some bitching around the time of release.
Regardless, our favorite part of the trailer is the over-the-top use of the opera and classical music which permeates much of the film (and gives it it’s many creepy and hallucinogenicly awesome Kubrick-ian shades). The film is sort of a modern day “Clockwork Orange” (not exactly an original sentiment, many have said this), meets some velvety David Lynch vibes, meets the sexy style and rhythm of “Trainspotting” without falling too much into the “rock n’ roll” category (not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that, but it’s not quite that). Still, as much as we’re not 100% down with this trailer (ok, some of it is admittedly feverishly good), it does sell this movie to the hilt and not too out of character, so that’s never a bad thing. We expect this trailer to be the talk of the blog world for at least the next 24 hours (since anything more than that is a dog’s age in Internet years). Tom Hardy is excellent in this picture and it’s probably the reason why Christopher Nolan snatched him up for a role in “Inception.” “Bronson” will probably be available on VOD around its September 25 release so do go out of your way to see it if you can.