Demonlover
Demonlover is a 2002 technological neonoir thriller film by French writerdirector Olivier Assayas. The film stars Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chlo Sevigny, and Gina Gershon with a musical score by Sonic Youth. It premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, although it was more widely released several months later.
Diane de Monx Nielsen is an executive trying to negotiate a deal to acquire the rights to the productions of a Japanese anime studio, which will soon include threedimensional hentai, for the Volf Corporation. To facilitate the acquisition, she eliminates her superior, Karen Dominique Reymond, and assumes control of her portfolio, her business partner Herv Berling, and her assistant Elise Sevigny. Elise, however, despises Diane and works to frustrate her negotiations at every opportunity. Diane and Herv travel to Japan to close the deal, and they enjoy a sexual flirtation which is unfulfilled at that time and seem to grow to like one another.Having acquired the rights, the Volf Corporation attempts to enter into a deal for distribution with an American Internet company called Demonlover, represented by Elaine Si Gibril Gershon. Diane, however, has actually been a spy all along for Demonlovers main competition, Mangatronics, meeting with a mysterious handler on occasion to pass along information on the Demonlover deal. Meanwhile, Diane discovers that Elaines company is a front for a website called the Hellfire Club, an interactive torture web site dealing with extreme sadomasochism broadcast in realtime. When confronted with these charges, Demonlover praises Hellfire Club but claims no ties to it whatsoever. ........
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