strange, cold and pretty damn good

"Assayas is a great lover of women, so its no surprise that the ladies of demonlover are every bit as vulnerable, feral and dangerous as Irma Vep." - Ed Gonzalez

Movie was interesting fight for power between several leading ladies. There is a lot of erotic tension; we are dealing with virtual manga porn sites and fight for their rights. But the story shatters the whole thing and because of incoherent twists in the story, we end up with highly unpleasant mixed up feeling what was all about. The story is still there, but who the hell was Connie Nielsen's character. Really.

Even if I tend to go for Assayas's other films over his thrillers and though this movie may be somewhat messy (if somewhat purposefully so), it nonetheless is an always engaging film with three fantastic female lead performances that has a fascinating marriage between Assayas's freewheeling camerawork and his cold, near-future aesthetic. The final scene also contains one of the better fourth-wall breaking indictments I've seen.

Starts off really quite interesting, but goes badly off the rails. In the end, the viewer inevitably resents having been invited into an intriguing tale traversing some thought-provoking territory, only to be confronted with a series of scenes which are not only confusing and absurd, but, worse, nearly wholly uninteresting. The final "payoff" is not worth the price of enduring the second half.