Review of Demonlover (2002) by Yogesh R — 05 Oct 2007
October 6, 2007 â?? Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
In this dark, dystopian film the realm of high finance (a standard private equity firm) merges with that of sadomasochistic sexual exploitation and surveillance. It is not just that firms producing and purveying the latter are being bought and sold by the former. In Olivier Assayasâ??s film, the executives, analysts, lawyers, and back-office personnel themselves become slaves and masters, in frighteningly literal circumstances. The link between capital and sexual exploitation (or sex in general) is hardly new, but Assayas reminds us that this connection is anything but metaphorical, and that the attendant dehumanization and alienation uses, hurts, exploits, and kills people.
[Weird trivia: Watch out for the mezuzah on Dianeâ??s door (Assayas told me that this was the set designerâ??s idea, not his, but that he said it could be left on).].
This review of Demonlover (2002) was written by Yogesh R on 05 Oct 2007.
Demonlover has generally received mixed reviews.
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