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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781594351136
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1594351139
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 42851
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The most fearless film yet by France's idiosyncratic Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) is an unholy marriage of ruthless corporate thriller and sinister science fiction. Connie Nielsen is the American 'ice princess' in a French multination, an ambitious executive whose betrayals and invasive tactics would make her a villain in any other film. Here she's just a pawn in a shadowy conspiracy that may involve contemptuous new assistant Chloe Sevigny and fellow dealmaker Charles Berling and takes her from the legal (if unsavory) commerce of Japanese Internet porn to the brutal market of underground pornography. Assayas directs his modern corporate nightmare with a voyeuristic style, a hard eye for disturbing images, and more passion than explanation. It isn't his most audience-friendly film, but his portrait of international commerce and image culture in the 21st century is impassioned and haunting--cinema for viewers hungry for ambitious and provocative filmmaking. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Dystopia of the New Millenia
Demonlover is a very modernist film which deserves to be alligned with the great dystopic novels of the previous century, "We", "the Iron Heel", and particularly "1984" with one proviso its primary impact as opposed to literary is videogenic.
It tells the story of a corportate executive, appropriatly female, who will go to any lengths to succeed according to her on self-defined, narcisstic standards at odds with her objective appearances and in stark contrast to others expectations. Brash ... Read More
Rating: - Intriguing, But Unsatisfying
I watched this film from start to finish, which suggests I found it interesting enough to stick with. But, I was also totally perplexed by its many nonsensical plot twists. For example, it took me far too long to figure out that it takes place in the "high rolling" world of corporate financed porn (an intriguing idea, given the fact that I had no idea such a world existed - I always thought of the porn industry as much more contained and independent).
DEMONLOVER is a little too stylized ... Read More
Rating:  - Jumbled mish-mash that garbles its promise
Where's the emotions and motivations for this contorted mess? Great camera work and suberb dramatic talent wasted on a plot that defies logic.
Rating: - People in great shoes behaving badly
Morally bankrupt and blandly ruthless operatives of a multinational plot to acquire a Japanese entity that cranks out morally bankrupt, misogynistic CGI manga. The fun comes from watching ethiclly challenged people in groovy, disheveled designer clothes playing what they think is hardball for the rights to said anime, while just out of frame something bigger and nastier than all of them is waiting to swallow up the whole lot. For all its chilly ambivalence, Demonlover is in the end a simple morality tale ... Read More
Rating: - Demonlover
"Demonlover" is a great looking, inspired film that is ultimately unfulfilling but pretty damn entertaining for the most part. The movie stars Connie Nielsen ('The Ice Harvest'), Chloe Sevigny ('The Brown Bunny'), and Gina Gershon ('3-Way') and is about a woman named Diane (Nielsen) who poisons a woman named Karen so she can take her place as head of a company that produces animated pornography. Sevigny plays Elise, her assistant who can't stand her and Gershon plays a pot smoking American executive. The movie ... Read More
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