Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Never quite jells into a coherent statement. Or a coherent film.
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France · 2002
2h 1m
Director Olivier Assayas
Starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Dominique Reymond
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Never quite jells into a coherent statement. Or a coherent film.
Nielsen beautifully embodies the sadness and confused sense of unreality that attend our appetite for the Internet's cheaper thrills.
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]
Los Angeles Times by Manohla Dargis
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.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Disturbing, darkly beautiful.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Unlike almost every other sexy modern thriller (especially most recent studio blockbusters), this one gives you a lot to think about.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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.
May be Assayas' airiest work to date, an intriguing trifle that leaves its considerable pleasures to lounge around on the surface.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The entrancing visual imagery goes a long way toward filling in the screenplay's gaps in logic.
Sure to turn off general viewers due to its emotional inaccessibility, multitude of narrative problems and preoccupation with a torture Web site.
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