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Nicolas Winding Refn Talks Chances Of A Mads Mikkelsen Reunion As ‘Pusher’ Plays In Venice In Double-Bill With Short Film ‘Beauty Is Not A Sin’


Danish director is at Venice Film Festival for a double bill screening today of 1996 breakthrough feature Pusher and new short film Beauty Is Not A Sin.

Nicolas Winding Refn is back in Venice for a double bill screening today of 1996 breakthrough feature Pusher and Beauty Is Not A Sin, a short commissioned by Italian motorcycle brand Agusta, which is the first ever commercial to play in the festival’s official selection. The Sicily-set latter work stars Stefano Gaeta as a priest opposite Laura Grassi as woman who comes to his church to confess a long list of sinful acts spanning gluttony, lust and envy, as he battles with his own inner demons. It will play alongside Pusher which has been invited to Venice Classics close to 30 years after it signaled Refn and its lead Mads Mikkelsen – in the role of a Copenhagen drug dealer – as talents to watch.

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