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The director of Drive died for 25 minutes. Now he’s making movies again: ‘I was brought back to life by God’

Nicolas Winding Refn, the button-pressing Danish director of ‘Drive’ and ‘The Neon Demon’, had not made a film for nearly a decade before his heart stopped during cardiac surgery. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about his artistic resurrection
If there is a shared trait among provocateurs, it is a hatred of agreement. Dissent is their lifeblood. Consensus, their scourge. If the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn were to receive universal praise for any film of his, well, he would practic... [8197 chars]
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