Bleeder (1999)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1999
	Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher 1-3, Drive)
	Actors: Kim Bodnia (Old Men in New Cars), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal TV-series), Rikke Louise Andersson, Levino Jensen
	Country: DK
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 05.10.2015, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Leo (Bodnia) has just learned that his girlfriend Lousie (Andersson) got pregnant. He is trying to accept it while living a miserable life in a poor area of Copenhagen, surrounded nby his brother-in-law Louis (Jensen) and his buddy Lenny (Mikkelsen)
Review: Second movie from the now-famous director NWR, Bleeder takes place right after the story of the revelation Pusher, and uses the same characters. I loved the first movie and have watched the trilogy many years ago, and after watching Drive I wanted to deepen my knowledge of NWR's filmography. There is actually not too much gangster action in Bleeder, but more about the life of people trying to survive in unfavorable conditions. I could appreciate once more the talent of NWR for telling such stories: hand-held camera, long shots, grey colors, scarce dialogs, and many many situations uncomfortable to watch, like scenes of gratuitous racial insults or flirting between two very shy people. And as in all his movies that I know, the tension is very high because you just know that at some point things are going to go west. The music already plays a great role in Bleeder, twelve years before Drive's loud soundtrack. Small technical note: as in many DVDs I bought from UK, the image quality on this one is very poor, but it seems more likely due to a interlacing problem than really to encoding.  I have seen that NWR's third movie Fear X is available on Netflix...
Rating: 7 /10