Demonlover | 
| Director: Olivier Assayas
Actors: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny, Dominique Reymond, Jean-baptiste Malartre
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Category: DVD
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 163040
Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
UPC: 660200309121
EAN: 0660200309121
ASIN: B00049QR0Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: October 19, 2004
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The most fearless film yet by France's idiosyncratic Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) is an unholy marriage of ruthless corporate thriller and sinister science fiction. Connie Nielsen is the American "ice princess" in a French multination, an ambitious executive whose betrayals and invasive tactics would make her a villain in any other film. Here she's just a pawn in a shadowy conspiracy that may involve contemptuous new assistant Chloe Sevigny and fellow dealmaker Charles Berling and takes her from the legal (if unsavory) commerce of Japanese Internet porn to the brutal market of underground pornography. Assayas directs his modern corporate nightmare with a voyeuristic style, a hard eye for disturbing images, and more passion than explanation. It isn't his most audience-friendly film, but his portrait of international commerce and image culture in the 21st century is impassioned and haunting--cinema for viewers hungry for ambitious and provocative filmmaking. --Sean Axmaker
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The film captures a culture spiraling out of control in which reality is posited as a video game and where every twist escalates the film to a new level.
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 Demonlover January 18, 2009
Robert C. Mckelvey (Indianapolis, IN USA)
This is a haunting, intriguing, well-written film, much more intellectually developed than could be determined by the name. Chloe Sevigny gives an outstanding performance. Since seeing Ms. Sevigny in "Zodiac", "Brown Bunny", "Shattered Glass" and now in "Demonlover", I have become her biggest fan. She gives a chillingly cold-hearted performance in "Demonlover".
Dystopia of the New Millenia April 3, 2007
Austin Hancock
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Demonlover is a very modernist film which deserves to be alligned with the great dystopic novels of the previous century, "We", "the Iron Heel", and particularly "1984" with one proviso its primary impact as opposed to literary is videogenic.
It tells the story of a corportate executive, appropriatly female, who will go to any lengths to succeed according to her on self-defined, narcisstic standards at odds with her objective appearances and in stark contrast to others expectations. Brash and domineering she uses a free floating cynicism to treacherously sell her corporate secrets to others for monetary gain thinking self-assuredly that her private intrique and machinations are curiously invioable, just as many criminals do. This is the first half of the film, in the second part of which so many critics don't like, all this ballsy swagger is shown to be an act of utter self-deluding fantasy; she has underestimated her antagonist and she instead of manipulating the system for her own gain she devolves into a most contemptible slave to it. A powerful morality tale for the times.
Intriguing, But Unsatisfying August 22, 2006
Robert Byrd (Minneapolis, MN United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I watched this film from start to finish, which suggests I found it interesting enough to stick with. But, I was also totally perplexed by its many nonsensical plot twists. For example, it took me far too long to figure out that it takes place in the "high rolling" world of corporate financed porn (an intriguing idea, given the fact that I had no idea such a world existed - I always thought of the porn industry as much more contained and independent).
DEMONLOVER is a little too stylized for its own good - its focus on form completely overwhelms its paper thin storyline. Connie Nielson is very good, but could have been so much better with a stronger script. I debated giving it only 2 stars, but felt the performances merited a stronger rating.
 Jumbled mish-mash that garbles its promise August 6, 2006
M. Schreuder (provo, utah United States)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Where's the emotions and motivations for this contorted mess? Great camera work and suberb dramatic talent wasted on a plot that defies logic.
People in great shoes behaving badly June 26, 2006
Gary Harris (Atlanta, GA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Morally bankrupt and blandly ruthless operatives of a multinational plot to acquire a Japanese entity that cranks out morally bankrupt, misogynistic CGI manga. The fun comes from watching ethiclly challenged people in groovy, disheveled designer clothes playing what they think is hardball for the rights to said anime, while just out of frame something bigger and nastier than all of them is waiting to swallow up the whole lot. For all its chilly ambivalence, Demonlover is in the end a simple morality tale about a bad girl finding that her place in the food chain is a lot lower than she thought. How this gets her into trouble and into Emma Peels motocross outfit is all in the journey. Great score by Sonic Youth.
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