In 2011, Ryan Gosling teamed with director Nicholas Winding Refn for the wonderfully sublime crime film Drive.

This fall, the duo re-teams for a Bangkok crime drama called Only God Forgives, and the first trailer is online.

Refn’s ablity to shoot beautifully ugly films remains here, and honestly, this is one of the most effective and hypnotic teasers I’ve seen in a long time - I had to rewatch it a few times before I remembered I wanted to post it here.  Check it out, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Synopsis:

Julian (Gosling) lives in exile in Bangkok where he runs a Thai boxing club as a front for the family’s drugs smuggling operation. When Julian’s brother Billy is killed their mother, Jenna (Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives in the city. She wants revenge and forces Julian to find the killer. Julian’s contacts in the criminal underworld lead him directly to The Angel of Vengeance, a retired police officer who knows everything and who is both Judge and Punisher. Jenna demands that Julian kill The Angel of Vengeance, an act that will cost him dearly.