What is Irma Vep / Demonlover about?

IRMA VEP, 1996, Zeitgeist Films, 96 min. Dir. Olivier Assayas. A once prestigious French director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) casts Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung as villainess Irma Vep, and his sexual infatuation with her is matched by that of the costume designer who escorts her around Paris. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. In French with English subtitles. DEMONLOVER, 2002, Palm Pictures, 117 min. Updating David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME for the dotcom age, this dark thriller throws together gray-suited executives, high-tech websites and corporate espionage. As it draws links between the worlds of anime, videogames and pay-per-view pornography, Assayas’ film unnervingly suggests that even the most innocuous entertainments are part of a far less wholesome culture of the image. In French with English subtitles.

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What is Irma Vep / Demonlover about?: IRMA VEP, 1996, Zeitgeist Films, 96 min. Dir. Olivier Assayas. A once prestigious French director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) casts Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung as villainess Irma Vep, and his sexual infatuation with her is matched by that of the costume designer who escorts her around Paris. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. In French with English subtitles.
DEMONLOVER, 2002, Palm Pictures, 117 min. Updating David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME for the dotcom age, this dark thriller throws together gray-suited executives, high-tech websites and corporate espionage. As it draws links between the worlds of anime, videogames and pay-per-view pornography, Assayas’ film unnervingly suggests that even the most innocuous entertainments are part of a far less wholesome culture of the image. In French with English subtitles.