Olivier Assayas latest effort could be mistaken for a hipper-than-thou thriller. But it isnt--its in fact a difficult, challenging, and troubling art film. [October 2003, p. 19]
It's an exasperating, irresistible, must-see mess of a movie about life in the modern world and so very good that even when its story finally crashes and burns the filmmaking remains unscathed.
By the end of the movie, I frankly didn't give a damn. There's an ironic twist, but the movie hadn't paid for it and didn't deserve it. And I was struck by the complete lack of morality in Demonlover.
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