For all the noise that Nicolas Winding Refn makes with his daring, provocative, controversial, and challenging films, perhaps one of the least-seen things any modern auteur has made in recent years is his series, “Too Old To Die, Young,” starring Miles Teller which was seemingly not promoted and dumped on Amazon in the summer of 2019. That’s a shame because as difficult as it was to watch, violent, gruesome, brutal, and confrontational as it was, “Too Old To Die Young” was a blistering statement about America. Seemingly unbothered by it all, Refn went right back to making another series and has returned with “Copenhagen Cowboy,” which has returned him to his early crime roots in Denmark, ala his original “Pusher” trilogy.
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“Copenhagen Cowboy” centers on Miu, a young heroine who travels through Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. The series stars Angela Bundalovic (known for Netflix’s “The Rain”), Lola Corfixen (Refn’s daughter going under her mother’s maiden name), Zlatko Buric (one of the original “Pusher” stars), Andreas Lykke Jørgensen, Jason Hendil-Forssell, Li Ii Zhang, and Dragana Milutinovic.
Suffice it to say, “Copenhagen Cowboy” looks like it continues Refn’s obsession with neon-soaked imagery, sweaty nightclubs, pulsing electronic music, and the like.
Here’s the synopsis for the series.
Copenhagen Cowboy is a thrill-inducing, neon-drenched noir series set across six episodes that follows enigmatic young heroine, Miu. After a lifetime of servitude and on the verge of a new beginning, she traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. Searching for justice and enacting vengeance, she encounters her nemesis, Rakel, as they embark on an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural. The past ultimately transforms and defines their future, as the two women discover they are not alone, they are many.
Here’s Refn’s director’s statement about the series and discussing his intentions.
“Copenhagen Cowboy springs from my own revolutionary fire, seeking to both seduce and entertain the senses, designed to stimulate the mind, the eyes, the tongue, the heart, and the soul where high-strung emotions ignite in a macabre tour de force manifested in Miu, a continuation of my alter egos central to my past, present, and future work: Bronson (Tom Hardy) in “Bronson,” One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) in “Valhalla Rising,” Driver (Ryan Gosling) in “Drive,” the Lieutenant (Vithaya Pansringarm) in “Only God Forgives,” Jesse (Elle Fanning) in “The Neon Demon” and the multiple characters from my show “Too Old to Die Young.”
“Copenhagen Cowboy” has no official release date yet, but parts of the six-episode series just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, so presumably, the series will get a 2022 premiere date later this year. Watch the new teaser trailer/” sneak peek” below.
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