New Movie: Demonlover

[gkanai]

What the **** is this? Has anyone ever even heard of this?
Directed by Olivier Assayas who did "Irma Vep" which I saw and liked but...

Demonlover
Art/Foreign, Drama and Thriller
2 hrs. 05 min. A tale of corporate mergers, Japanese porn, and the Internet, in which a company hires an executive to infiltrate a rival company and sabotage it from within.
Release Date: September 19th, 2003 (LA/NY).
MPAA Rating: Not Rated.
Distributor: Palm Pictures

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808470430&cf=info

[Taro Toporific]

What the **** is this? Has anyone ever even heard of this?
Directed by Olivier Assayas who did "Irma Vep" which I saw and liked but...

Hey, it's "French" with Japanesque themes. Need I say more?

But the star, Chloe Sevigny, is cute...

[cstaylor]

IMDb

[gkanai]

Life Is Just a Video Game (With Very High Stakes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/movies/19DEMO.html

Denis Lenoir's cinematography intersperses evocatively murky portraits of Tokyo nightlife and a rain-swept Paris with vertiginous animated sequences, then artfully blends the two styles. The entrancing visual imagery goes a long way toward filling in the screenplay's gaps in logic.

One scene visits a Tokyo nightclub where the gleaming, curvaceous female entertainers resemble animated androids gyrating and chirping like electronic chipmunks. The trippier sequences suck the eye into churning maelstroms that ultimately tunnel toward a nightmarish cul-de-sac.

[Big Booger]

Aint it cool news had a good review on this film:

http://aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=16122

[Ptyx]

Don't be fooled by this one.
This is one of most boring would be-thriller ever made.
Assayas has no idea about porn (he's married to Maggie Cheung, he doesn't need porn...) and the internet and the big corporation world in general.
This movie was supposed to be about the saturation of images (mainly images of japanese porn actually) in our depraved occidental society. In the end it just embodies the fear of a french intelectual that doesn't understand the world he lives in.
This movie is like a blind guy trying to shoot a chicken. We all want him to hit so we can eat a little but no matter how hard he tries he can't kill the damn bird.
That's a shame because Assayas has some taste (the score is by Sonic Youth, the cinematography is nice, he's married to Maggie Cheung) but he's just too old and too happy about his life to make a movie that could matters on such a subject.

[Taro Toporific]

Don't be fooled by this one.
This is one of most boring would be-thriller ever made

It's may not "the most boring would be-thriller ever made" since I'm afraid most Japanese horror is similiar. I see WAY TOO much of it when I'm down on the farm. Down in Kansai, HORROR has a huge following and is seen as a safe movie for a date. Go figure.


PS: That's a grrrrreat avatar ya got Ptyx! (We've "met" before over at the tokyo-genki.com.) I've posted it on the FG several months ago (without your permission, sorry).

[Ptyx]

I'm one of the many evil minions of Katako ri. No problems for the avatar it's not like if i did draw it myself in the first place (it's from Koroshiya 1).

I've seen some japanese horror flicks and yes it's true that it's pretty slow but at least it's not some kind of pretentious art house stuff disguised as a technological trhiller about hentai with people screaming all over "My god, there is Porn on the internet for everyone to watch even kids !! And people are making money over it ! WHY !? WHY !?"

[katakori]

daemonlover is as entertaining and as realistic as the VR scene at the end of "disclosure"... anyone who has used the web for one second in their life and has more than one brain cell will see that the story was written with his feet. and the long fake porn scenes are there to "shock the bourgeois" (however it translates in english) and fill the gaps. nothing makes sense, and it's not even funny or thrilling.

assayas managed to make a movie almost as bad as "irreversible" ("alex" in japan), the most stinky pile ever screened in the last 20 years. mostly for the same reasons. but gaspard noe has a phd in bs...

anyway, Taro, Ptyx, Ptyx, Taro.
now it's official...