Delving into confusion and messing with genre expectations, as well as making some serious points about contemporary morality, this is thought-provoking film. Though not exactly an entirely successful one.
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03/02/08
Demonlover (2003)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:35
Rotten:38
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: A stylish but convoluted mess without any sympathetic characters.
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this dark French thriller directed by Olivier Assayas, Connie Nielsen (GLADIATOR) stars as Diane, an ambitious corporate climber. As Diane ruthlessly cuts down her rivals, she finds herself... [More]
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon
Director: Olivier Assayas
Reviews for Demonlover
Top CriticFlatulent, conceited and very, very confusing.
03/02/08
Top CriticIt's fun for a while, but gets steadily more opaque, elliptical and annoying.
03/02/08
Our wait for a decent corporate espionage / interactive virtual porn film continues.
12/30/06
Top CriticA silly, oddly disagreeable movie.
01/26/06
Top CriticExhilaratingly original.
05/11/04
Top CriticThis global thriller seriously plays with your head ... refusing to resolve itself into something clear-cut. But the approach is assured and intelligent.
05/01/04
Rather than deepening the mystery and sense of intoxication, the picture soon becomes one prolonged and very bad hangover.
03/02/08
Top CriticIt's gripping and provocative, making effective use of actor Charles Berling and the music of Sonic Youth.
03/02/08
A potent film.
08/14/07
Over and over, people hold solemn, antagonistic meetings over who'll get the rights to make computer-generated sleaze.
05/28/07
Yes, the subject is entertainment in the 21st century. A shame that it's not more entertaining.
12/06/05
There are those who see something brilliant and profound here. All I can see, however, is the confused work of a director who for some reason completely abandoned style and substance.
03/05/05
...exhausting and mind-numbing.
01/30/05
It ends up feeling like we arrived through a bad dream in Neverland.
01/05/05
A bleak cyber-thriller that bids you to see through the glossy images on the screen's surface.
05/14/04
Though film buffs will like the many references, the story takes a back seat to the visuals, and images, no matter how sensational, can only carry a film so far.
04/09/04
While Assayas is masterful at creating an eerie mood and has a far-sighted grasp of future shock, he seems to have left orbit while trying to tie up Demonlover's loose ends
03/30/04
By far one of the most interesting and thoughtful pieces of cinema to savage American cinema screens in ages, and certainly the only incoming French mind-warper with a soundtrack by Sonic Youth.
12/07/03
Demonlover is the kind of film that wants to make you feel stupid for not liking it.
12/04/03
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