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: Foreign Films
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
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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. Full Review |
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 1/5 |
Flatulent, conceited and very, very confusing. Full Review |
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It's fun for a while, but gets steadily more opaque, elliptical and annoying. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Our wait for a decent corporate espionage / interactive virtual porn film continues. Full Review |
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A silly, oddly disagreeable movie. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Exhilaratingly original. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
This global thriller seriously plays with your head ... refusing to resolve itself into something clear-cut. But the approach is assured and intelligent. Full Review |
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Rather than deepening the mystery and sense of intoxication, the picture soon becomes one prolonged and very bad hangover. Full Review |
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It's gripping and provocative, making effective use of actor Charles Berling and the music of Sonic Youth. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A potent film. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Over and over, people hold solemn, antagonistic meetings over who'll get the rights to make computer-generated sleaze. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Yes, the subject is entertainment in the 21st century. A shame that it's not more entertaining. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
...exhausting and mind-numbing. Full Review |
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C+ |
It ends up feeling like we arrived through a bad dream in Neverland. Full Review |
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9/10 |
A bleak cyber-thriller that bids you to see through the glossy images on the screen's surface. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Demonlover is the kind of film that wants to make you feel stupid for not liking it. Full Review |
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