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  Review by nathaxnne <3 [hiatus] ★★★★★ 9

  Then-present-tense cyberpunk, Demonlover is forever frozen upon the cusp of a lost futurism already lapsing into a decadent kitsch. The flows and tentacles of capital, all periphery and no center, shells within shells, without flags or loyalties. A Venn Diagram of exploitation with too many circles, relationships impossible to plot. 9/11 rendered this frictionless world of jet lag and instantaneous document transfer as unreachable as the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War One. The brief glimpse of Bush II on hotel tv is shocking enough, but he is talking about energy companies, not yet a 'war-time president', but the spectre of the torture dungeon lurks here too: before it was policy, it was just business.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★½

  Someone even owns the way you like to fuck. You sold it to them without even knowing it.

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  Review by viewer 🛸 ★★★★½ 9

  Prurient, horrific, dreamlike cyberpunk espionage. George W. Bush, Suicide Club, and pixelated porn on the TV. Darkthrone on the soundtrack. Rain on the window; reflections and hazy light and color everywhere. Terror more palpable than Videodrome arises when the capitalist rabbithole leads to the (NØ LØV∑) deep web. Mind and body are hostage to the darkest and most depraved back alleyways of internet mercantilism. Characters whose soul has all but vanished are nonetheless fascinating; Demonlover is a nightmare labyrinth where 'humanity' is all but gone, butchered, wasted, yet it's full of beautiful images and even moments of strangely delicate and always fleeting intimacy. Got the best rip I could find over on karagarga and this is one of those films…

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  Review by CinemaShadow ★★★★★ 4

  On the surface, Demonlover focuses on the machinations of multinational corporations from across the globe vying for the control of interactive visual content. This film saw the future. The future that is our current reality. On another level, this film seen the postmodern world as a reflection of that content, as the difference between physical and cyber space continues to diminish. Ballard must love this one. The conflation of sex and capitalism needs to be seen to be believed. Amorality as the only moral system in town. On par with anything made by Cronenberg or Kubrick.

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  Review by dash_cam ★★★★ 1

  Lara Croft Tomb Raider Sex Slave

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 4

  would've watched this sooner if i had known it was assayas' sleek, upsetting spiritual sequel to ferrara's new rose hotel; sharing with that film an effectively oblique, elliptical style and lo-fi postmodern cyberpunk/corporate espionage milieu of screens and transactions and despairing industrial weaponization of sex/violence. parts of it recall mulholland drive/inland empire era lynch in its depiction of women nightmarishly pursuing and being trapped in and consumed by a depraved industry of fantasy, others parts more the perverted voyeur techno-horror of videodrome, but it is ultimately this ambiguous, off-brand arthouse william gibson taken to desensitized, internet-age exploitation extremes that really makes it stand out.

  it has all the scenes you'd find in a more exciting espionage or conspiratorial thriller (gruesome…

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  Review by KYK 1

  THIS MOVIE KINDA OWNS??? But I also feel kinda... owned. Made me think of Elle, which is funny bc I just talked about that movie with Assayas before I even saw or knew much about Demonlover. Heavy Lynch vibes, of course, but also Rivette vibes (towards the end??). Surprised at how easy it was to lean over and whisper "that's the demonlover," though not at all an easy film. Lots of "at the club like" moments though. Def put the ass in Assayas. Demonlover dot com doesn't exist. Neither does hellfire club dot com. Not gonna try Japan porno dot com but I guess lmk if you do. Not sure at what point I was like "boy we are in…

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  Review by laird ★★★★★ 1

  Points towards the screen at the dehumanization and commodification of kink as a macguffin in an absurd game of control fueled by lust for power and material greed, leans over to date and whispers "That's the demonlover!"

  Even more linked to Feuillade than IRMA VEP? This is a hentai cybersnuff FANTOMAS in which Fantomas isn't a person but a kind of mental illness borne from addiction to wealth and power. Either way, chaos reigns. This may be Assayas' most visually adventurous movie. Would love to be the assistant editor that had to log hours of close up inserts of rain streaked windows, Playstation games, and p0rn.

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 1

  olivier assayas does not know what a "plot" is, nor does he know what "consistency" or "cohesiveness" or "planning in advance" are

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  Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★ 14

  Diving into murky, shark-infested waters, trying not to drown or get eaten. It’s a dirty business…

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  Review by Emalie ★★★½

  Had to pause this halfway in and close my curtains so my neighbors didn't think I was watching anime porno in the middle of the day.

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★ 1

  damn ma all this because of some anime titties