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Connie Nielsen,
Charles Berling,
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Olivier Assayas
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: Palm Pictures
: Foreign, France, Erotica
: 115 min.
: English, French, Japanese
: English, Spanish
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French director Olivier Assayas departs from his usual dramas with Demonlover, a wild thriller about corporate intrigue, hardcore sex Internet sites, and Japanese animé. Wealthy French business man Henri-Pierre Volf (Jean-Baptise Malartre) assigns Diane de Monx (Connie Nielson) to make a deal with TokyoAnime, a company at the forefront of three-dimensional adult animation, after his former assistant, Karen (Dominique Reymond), is kidnapped. Diane, however, is actually a spy for a different company. Standing in her way is another headstrong business woman (Gina Gershon), and Diane's assistant, Elise Lipsky (Oscar nominee Chloe Sevigny) who questions her boss' morality. Demonlover was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
There are rumors that an unrated version will be released on DVD later this year but there is still no confirmed street date. When an unrated version is released we will be replacing our R-rated copies with Unrated ones. Apparently, the main difference between the R-rated and the Unrated versions is that the R-rated release optically fogs the Hentai scenes.
Special Features:
- Interviews with Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny and Olivier Assayas
- Previews
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| did that just happen???
by FOlmstead
June 3, 2006 - 8:45 PM PDT
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I can't give you a synopsis of this film because it's sort of like the layers of an onion. You think you've finally got it and then... another layer peels off and suddenly everything is different.
Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Who knows what the REAL truth is? Even the dialogue suddenly switches between French and English and back again.
I'd say this film can best be compared to something made by David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino as a co-venture. Surreal, Violent, Impossible to explain.
In the interviews, that part of the additional material, both Connie Nielson and Chloe Sevigny note that Olivier Assayas, the director, didn't give them much direction and sort of let them find their own way. Considering what this film is like, I think that is exactly the right way to go.
I also think that those folks who are trying to define this as a corporate thriller are really off the mark.
Bottom line... did I like it? Absolutely.
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| Complex but empty
by chocopups
August 17, 2004 - 4:08 PM PDT
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| The broad details of this movie made me think of William Gibson's novel, "Pattern Recognition," which I liked quite a lot. Demonlover is something entirely different though, lacking sympathetic characters and primarily being an (I guess) expose of modern entertainment-industry espionage. OK, but frankly, every time a layer of intrigue was peeled back, it just seemed to confirm that there was nothing at the center. |
| Modern Times
by talltale
May 17, 2004 - 8:26 AM PDT
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2 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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| DEMONLOVER is a kick and a half. It's good moviemaking, good agitprop, and a good brain-teaser all in one. It's got a convoluted but not inaccessible plot, and if you're a fan of Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloe Sevigny and Charles Berling, you'll enjoy the goings-on even more. French director Olivier Assayas (like the British Michael Winterbottom) tries his hand at many different genres--and usually succeeds. Here, he tackles the corporate thriller from a somewhat Marxist perspective. The idea: An off-kilter and nasty critique of capitalism that says "Marketing is all, so paying for something--no matter how wretched it might be--makes the thing worthwhile." You may disagree with this assessment by the time of the film's queasy, dark conclusion, but I bet you'll have a fast and frisky time reaching that conclusion. |
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