Bronson

Portrait of the Criminal as a Performance

Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Bronson” is a highly stylized and embellished film biography of a man known as the most famous prisoner in Britain. Born Michael Peterson in 1952 and raised mostly in the city of Luton, Charles Bronson, renamed after the American movie star, has spent all but a few months of the last 35 years in prison, mostly in solitary confinement.
The film, dominated by the bald, snarling and oddly charming presence of Tom Hardy in the title role, is not interested in sociological or psychological explanations. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (2450 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 9 Ottobre 2009