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Demonlover

Director's Cut

Jean-Pierre Gos (Actor, Host), Connie Nielsen (Actor, Host), Olivier Assayas (Director, Host) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
IMDb5.9/10.0
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Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesised the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.

Up-and-coming executive Diane (Connie Nielsen, One Hour Photo) lets nothing stand in her way when it comes to landing the lucrative Tokyo Anime contract for the Volf Corporation, guaranteeing worldwide exclusive rights to the latest in cutting-edge hentai. Despised by her assistant (Chloe Sevigny, American Psycho) and engaged in a risky game of corporate espionage, her ruthless ambition meets its match in Elaine (Gina Gershon, Bound), the charismatic representative of an American Internet porn company called Demonlover. However, the company is only the front for an online portal to the Hellfire Club, which gives its users control over the next big thing in interactive extreme pornography: real women, tortured according to subscribers whims, in real time. Diane wants a piece of the action, and will stop at nothing to get it; but as she delves deeper into the twisted world of the Hellfire Club, reality slips away and the stakes of the game are raised to the point of no return.

Armed with an iconic score by art-rock pioneers Sonic Youth, Assayas neo-noir/cyberhorror masterpiece is finally unleashed for the first time on Blu-Ray, with revealing extras and a new director-approved restoration.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

  • Brand new 2K restoration of the 121-minute director s cut, approved by Olivier Assayas
  • High Definition Blu-Ray (1080p) presentation
  • Original 5.1 DTS-HD master audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Audio commentary by writer/director Olivier Assayas
  • New visual essay written and narrated by critic Jonathan Romney
  • Peripherie de Demonlover, an hour-long behind-the-scenes documentary directed by Yorick Le Saux
  • Archive interviews with Olivier Assayas, Connie Nielsen, Chloe Sevigny and Charles Berling
  • SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the recording of the music score by Sonic Youth
  • Q&A with Olivier Assayas filmed at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2003
  • Extended version of the Hellfire Club sequence
  • Original theatrical trailers
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Malbon
  • FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anne Billson

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.77 x 5.35 x 0.63 inches; 4.23 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Olivier Assayas
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 1 minute
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 27, 2019
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jean-Pierre Gos, Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Dominique Reymond
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Demonlover
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Arrow Academy
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NHRC3MC
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 76 ratings

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Austin Hancock
5.0 out of 5 stars Dystopia of the New Millenia
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2007
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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 and domineering she uses a free floating cynicism to treacherously sell her corporate secrets to others for monetary gain thinking self-assuredly that her private intrique and machinations are curiously invioable, just as many criminals do. This is the first half of the film, in the second part of which so many critics don't like, all this ballsy swagger is shown to be an act of utter self-deluding fantasy; she has underestimated her antagonist and she instead of manipulating the system for her own gain she devolves into a most contemptible slave to it. A powerful morality tale for the times.
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E. Kutinsky
4.0 out of 5 stars Elusive but invasive
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2005
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I walked out of the theater I caught demonlover in a couple of years ago sure I had witnessed a garballed movie ruined by a windbag need to be abstrusely "difficult." I'm not sure that assessment is wrong, per se, but since watching the movie, it's never quite left my mind, and I found myself purchasing a copy to watch it again. On this viewing, I'm far more kind. Its first hour is a top rate corporate thriller full of cunning acting and mesmerizing developments. Then, midway through, Diane (Connie Nielsen, in her only great performance to date) wakes up in a hotel room and the movie jumps through one of those Lynchian rabbit holes we call "Lynchian" to pretend we understand them (as if being deliberately unclear could be a calling card). The hallucination the movie becomes in the second half is a sort of half-cocked nightmare critique of soulless business practices, of the way the immorality of a corporation's practices and products can take over the essence of who its practiotioners are. Or so I think. Olivier Assayas lets the wind out of his movie for about an hour straight even to get that far, and it leads to narrative frustration, but I can't say watching this movie a second time that that frustration is necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it takes me a place that I don't even go with David Lynch movies - Lynch is much more an artist of the hallucinatory. demonlover is, at heart, a movie of fairly innocent ideals told for maximum complication in a manner whose riskiness becoems its initial biggest weakness. Given another shot, you may find that riskiness returning you for another round, as I did.
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N. Luyt
5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the bad press.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2004
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My humble opinion is that all the bad press that this film has received (mostly from hoplessly middlebrow American critics) is simply a reflection of the intellectual bankruptcy of modern films and their makers, something which Assayas was most probably trying to guard against when he made this film. Critics like to mention stuff like "...not the most audience friendly film", which is just to say that the film isn't essentially "moral", "humanist", "just", easily understandable etc., etc., and we can't very well have that, can we.

It is a complex film, a difficult film, a trying film, just as all good art should be. Meaning is constantly deferred. I cannot begin to try and fathom the film, but that (I think) is not entirely the point anyway.
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Bigfun
3.0 out of 5 stars ok movie
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2009
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Its an ok movie, probably a "renter" instead of a "purchaser". The acting is decent, but the story is hard to follow at times. Its about rival companies competing for the 3D anime market and one of the companies is involved in an underground adult "fetish" site.
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Noel McKinney
5.0 out of 5 stars Visually appealing but wears you out
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2010
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I've owned this movie for several years and tend to start it but rarely finish it. The characters are nasty, making lots of money off the lowest of behaviors. It's fun to watch it and zone out on the dark imagery and moody music before going to bed, and by the halfway point I'm worn out and ready to sleep.
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1.0 out of 5 stars BORING!
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2010
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Wow, huge waste of time. This movie sucked even for a B film. The acting was lukewarm at best. Plot wasn't too terrible, but simply didn't hold my attention. Way too slow paced and low quality. Actors had no facial expressions at all 99% of the time, so it was hard to tell if they're capable of acting or just reading the lines. Cheesey violence, totally unsexy.
Don't bother watching this one.
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Harry Georgatos
4.0 out of 5 stars French wave extremity
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2012
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This is a hardcore R-rated neo-noir technological thriller with corporate giants vying to monoplise the interactive 3D digital pornography market. It's a film that lacks morality as the limits of corporate espionage takes place among characters that have no limits. The limits of depravations are played out in extremely lurid fashion. The underground torture sites on the world-wide web reminded me of the HOSTEL films as a Corporate agent played by Connie Nielsen finds herself as an abducted star-player on a torture web-side THE HELLFIRE'S CLUB while a young boy in a surburban home steals his father's gold card and logs into this illegal web site as we are about to witness the online torture of Nielsen. It has all the elements and mise-en-scene one would expect in this genre. There's technological voyeruism, deprave sexuality, corporate exploitation and globilization, espionage amongst corporate giants and the backstabing exploitation of office politics with characters who decieve one other for corporate gain. Apparently Brian De Palma's new corporate thriller PASSION is set to be heavily influenced by DEMONLOVER.
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H Bells
5.0 out of 5 stars .
Reviewed in Canada on April 30, 2020
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I don't know why but I love watching this movie, a lot.
I'm not sure if it's the acting, story or how its filmed but I'm fascinated by it. The actors did a stellar job with their roles.
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Marco Bowie-Gallagher
4.0 out of 5 stars Visuell herausragendes Werk
Reviewed in Germany on July 3, 2020
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Olivier Assayas Filme bewegen sich immer irgendwo zwischen dramatischen Geniestreichen und gepflegter Langeweile. "Irma Vep" wurde damals verdient gefeiert, "Carlos-Der Schakal" vor allem in der Langfassung ein komplexer Thriller ohnegleichen und "Die Wolken von Sils Maria" ist ein Film, der dramatisch erschüttert und doch die Sehnsucht nach Urlaub im Engadin weckt.

Der ebenfalls von der Kritik gefeierte "Personal Shopper" hingegen ist für mich nur ein langatmiger Pseudokunstfilm und dass ein Regiesseur, der durchaus ein Talent für außergewöhnliches Kino hat, dann filmische Verbrechen wie "Boarding gate" in Umlauf bringt, kann nicht plausibel nachvollzogen werden.

Doch wenn ich "Personal shopper" als Pseudokunstfilm kritisiere, müsste ich dies bei "Demonlover" ebenfalls. Nachdem Assayas mit "Irma Vep" und "Das Ende der Unschuld" von den Kritikern gefeiert wurde, hatten sie für "Demonlover" auch nur Spot übrig.

"Demonlover" hatte 2002 auch das Potential eines Skandals. Insgesamt vermischt Assayas die Kritik an Gewalt in TV und Video im Stil von David Cronenber's "Videodrome", modernisiert es ins Zeitalter von "eXistenZ" und schockiert offensichtlich mit der SM-Thematik die amerikanische Prüderie. Die R-Rated Fassung wurde um mehrere Minuten gekürzt und umgeschnitten, die ungeschnittene Fassung bekam ein Unrated. Der kalkulierte, kapitalbringende Skandal blieb allerdings aus, weil sich damals fast kein Mensch für diesen Film interessierte.

Während Atom Egoyan mit "Family viewing" eine inhaltlich gelungene "Videodrome" Variation schuf, so bleibt dieser Film tatsächlich inhaltlich flach. Dennoch ist der Film in vielerlei Hinsicht brillant, die Besetzung mit Connie Nielson, Chloë Sevigny und Gina Gershon ein Augenschmaus. Die vonConnie Nielson dargestellte Protagonistin verhandelt mit einem japanischen Unternehmen um die Rechte für Animes voller Sex und Gewalt, stößt dann auf die SM-Seite Hellfire-Club, ist irgendwie fasziniert und verängstigt und ist irgendwann mittendrin. Doch irgendwann wird der Film bewusst unübersichtlich und wirr, spielt mit der Vermischung von Wirklichkeit und Traum. Inhaltlich bleibt die Geschichte tatsächlich leer, dennoch entsteht ein soghafter, oberflächlicher Thriller, der visuell sogar den Werken von Brian De Palma würdig ist und mit der Musik von Sonic Youth kongenial unterstütz wird. Insgesamt ist die Story noch weitaus verworrener als De Palma's trotz aller Brillanz stringent erzählten Thriller und eher ein Film für Fans von ebenfalls visuell ausufernden Werken wie "Neon Demon".

Und der Zahn der Zeit, ja auch der hat bereits an "Demonlover" genagt, obwohl der Film erst 18 Jahre alt ist. Aber die gezeigte SM-Thematik wird heute höchstens noch erzkonservative Christen schockieren.

"Demonlover" kann jedoch Jedem empfohlen werden, der visuell und soundtechnisch geprägtes Kino mag. Style over Substance traf es selten so gut wie hier. Und würde man einen Film allein anhand des Stils beurteilen, so würde man hier nicht an der Höchstwertung vorbeikommen. Aber für eine inhaltlich schwache SM-Variation von "Videodrome" muss ich zumindest einen Stern abziehen.
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Paulou69
5.0 out of 5 stars Etincellant
Reviewed in France on September 8, 2019
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Un beau thriller français porté par des acteurs fantastiques.
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Soulie
5.0 out of 5 stars Still relevant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2019
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It’s better than it ever was
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Maldoror
2.0 out of 5 stars Liebe Concorde-Menschen . . . . . .
Reviewed in Germany on July 3, 2012
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Demonlover - Der Tod kommt online ...  ist leider wieder einmal eine der überflüssigen Veröffentlichungen wo zwar dankenswerterweise die Originaltonspur enthalten ist, aber nicht eine Spur von Untertiteln. - Warum veröffentlicht man das so?

Warum werde ich gezwungen, diesen Film in deutscher Synchronisation anzusehen? Leider spreche und verstehe ich nur ganz wenig Französisch, hätte aber doch gerne die Möglichkeit den Film in der Fassung zu sehen und zu hören, in der er ursprünglich vom Regisseur gedacht war.

Ich finde das wirklich traurig.

April 2013: Der Film hätte wirklich eine angemessene Veröffentlichung im deutschsprachigen Raum verdient! Einer der interessantesten Thriller im neuen Jahrtausend! Bedrückendes Ende.
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Die DVD bietet kein besonders tolles Bild und die Synchronisation wirkt zwischendurch immer wieder wie ein Fremdkörper.
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