2002 · thriller · corporate · techno
Demonlover
Directed by Olivier Assayas2h 1m2002
A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Our read: Demonlover (2002) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · corporate · techno entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / corporate, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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