Pusher

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

1996 / 110min / 35mm

Refn’s feature debut as well as the first big-screen outing for Mads Mikkelsen, Pusher breathlessly trails Frank (Kim Bodia), a hapless low-level dealer who finds himself one day with his head on the chopping block, scrambling to cover a mountain of debt to his supplier while double crosses and foiled schemes hatched to settle his financial obligation pile up around him. Fierce and frenetic, Refn’s film is a wild, run-and-gun plunge into the hellmouth of the Copenhagen underworld. “Doesn’t pause for pop-cult free associations, art-directed trippiness, or smirking wisecracks… When a shotgun goes off in someone’s face, it’s decidedly not a punchline.”—Village Voice

Part of '90s Noir