Cannes’ hot ticket Her Private Hell maddened me with its horny lesbian exploitation

Her Private Hell was hellish to watch (Picture: Neon)

In an auteur-heavy but Hollywood-light edition of Cannes Film Festival this year, one of the movies I was most looking forward to was Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, his first feature film in a decade.

Refn is a darling of the Croisette, winning best director at Cannes in 2011 for his most popular film Drive – which also boosted star Ryan Gosling into the big leagues – before dividing audiences sharply with both 2013’s Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon in 2016.

Her Private Hell is the result of his comeback after dying for 25 minutes three years ago, an experience that he says re...