Demonlover Movie Review 2002

Big business meets the high-stakes game of high tech Internet pornography and results in a confusing, unnecessarily violent thriller. Nielsen plays Diane, a corporate spy acting as an assistant to Henri-Pierre Volf (Malartre), the head of multinational conglomerate VolfGroup. VolfGroup threatens to take over TokyoAnime, producers of revolutionary, animated 3-D smut, which sparks rival companies Mangatronics and Demonlover to get nasty. Nasty pretty much sums up just about all the characters and the rest of the action throughout, led by the particularly immoral Diane. Characters are totally devoid of sympathy while the plot begins to totally unravel halfway through.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 120 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Corporate Shenanigans, Technology--Rampant, Paris, Japan, Pornography

Screenplay

Olivier Assayas

Cast

Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny, Gina Gershon, Dominique Reymond, Jean-Baptiste Malartre

Cinematography

Denis Lenoir

Director

Olivier Assayas

Music

Sonic Youth

Other

Philippe Richard, Luc Barnier, Anais Romand, Francois-Renaud Lebarthe

Producer

Edouard Weil, Xavier Giannoli, TPS Cinema, Elizabeth Films, M6 Films, Palm Pictures