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Title: Demonlover |
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Release Date: 2003 |
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Running time: 117 Min |
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Distributor and Production Company: Palm |
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Director; Writer: Olivier Assayas |
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Cast: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling |
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Technical: Panavision Widescreen, digital |
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Review: This is a big gaudy and important film about the corporate adult entertainment industry, and from all appearances, the only reason it does not have a major studio releasing it is the inability to get an R rating. Again, this film makes the case that we need a legitimate adult rating that does not make theater exhibitors sequeamish, The first half of the film presents the account of a large corporate merger where a French company is buying a Japanese enterprise in digital porn for the web. Some of the legal concerns, such as avoiding child pornography, are explored. Soon there is a lawsuit from a competitor, apparently based on trademark, but the details become murky. So does the plot, which quickly turns to corporate espionage and in this case resulting violence. The film does present the problem facing screenwriters:
how do convey detailed “information” without blurring or overwhelming the
characters or stalling the story line. Here, the problem is that there are no
characters we really like. But the spectacle of the film, both going into
adult web sites and in exotic on-location scenes (such as in |
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