"Pushed Ourselves to the Max"

CANNES 2013. So says Lene Børglum, producer of Nicolas Winding Refn’s "Only God Forgives", a low-budget film with a stylised cinematic vocabulary and a star-studded cast.

22. May 2013 Redaktionen

Lene Børglum has a full plate. The Danish producer of Refn’s Only God Forgives, a gangster film set in Bangkok, is busy with the final preparations before this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where the film is in the main competition. Her company, Space Rocket Nation (...)

Read the full interview in FILM Digital Cannes Issue 2013

Only God Forgives

Julian runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok as a front for the family's drugs smuggling operation. When Julian's brother Billy is killed, their mother Crystal shows up in the city to bring the body of her firstborn home to America and to get Julian to avenge his dead brother.

Lene Børglum

Producer. Born 1961 in Denmark. After working on a series of independent films, Børglum became a part of the Danish production company Zentropa when it was founded in 1992.

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