Demonlover

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 ...more

Demonlover starts out as a sharply constructed corporate thriller, but the plot makes less literal sense as it progresses, and eventually the narrative becomes so disjointed that the movie seems almost dreamlike. This may be a deliberate ploy by writer/director Olivier Assayas; the same is probably true for the film's sterile settings, the cold and somewhat decontextualized images of sex and violence, and the moral and emotional emptiness of most of the characters. These filmmaking choices ...more