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This is a weird film about the life and plasticity of hot models in L.A. Weird & Erotic. Movies & TV. When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has. What begins as an allegory for the hunger for youth and beauty with the modeling / show business industry as a form of vampirism becomes absurdly literal, channeling cannibalism and Countess Bathory bathing in the blood of virgins. Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018. By Your Side 5:08 $1.29: 6. Jena Malone was the best part of this film. Select the department you want to search in. This title may not be available to watch from your location. Check your inbox or spam folder now to confirm your subscription. SPOILER ALERT!!! I agree with many others about the cinematography and visual elements as the highest points of the film. Sweet Mess 5:45 $1.29: 2. Strange horrible boring film.I obtained it to see what all the fuss was about.Wish I had not bothered.Looks like Keanu Reeves will appear in anything.I will say that it is beautifully shot but is far too long.Some sick scenes also. With "The Neon Demon", director Nicolas Winding-Refn seems to have come to the end of a trilogy which began with "Drive" (2011) and continued through "Only God Forgives" (2013). Make Something Outta Me 2:59 $1.29: 5. Even though I didn't like any of the characters, I found Ruby (Jena Malone) the most interesting out of the whole movie. Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. I cannot express how stupid I was for watching this...alll...the...way...through. Jesse is the latest sacrifice to the gods of success and desire and power in NWR’s monogrammed photo shoot. Nicholas Winding Refn, who wrote and directed his social commentary-as-heady horror film, isn’t big on subtlety. He writes the weekly newspaper column Stream On Demand and the companion website, and his work appears at RogerEbert.com, Turner Classic Movies online, The Film Noir Foundation, and Parallax View. Brilliant dark movie and fantastic soundtrack, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2020. This film is an oddity, it's basically a film about narcissist tendencies of Hollywood. There is a scene where someone makes out with a cadaver. Skip to main content.us. When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has in this horror thriller from Nicolas Winding Refn. An unusual story which is well acted and the visuals are what make this film for me. The Neon Demon [Blu-ray]. Amazon.com: Neon Demon: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Refn: Movies & TV . To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I think it could have been better if a few things were clarified. Don’t miss a single recommendation. Central character is awesome, portrays a young innocent woman with finesse. Refn’s stripped down production design and eighties neon visuals are accompanied by synth soundtracks and dance club sounds, but the film is also filled with images of fertility, lunar cycles, hedonism, and occult symbols. The Neon Demon (2016) – “I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t write… no real talent. Unexpectedly dark and brilliant. This title may not be available to watch from your location. Put another way, Jesse is the delicate angelfish swimming in a pool of sharks but she learns quickly. Handlung. She’s an artist who wants to possess her creations. Subscribe to Stream On Demand to receive notifications of new posts (your E-mail address will not be shared) and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. I think they could have cut some of the scenes, or shortened them, or just explained a little more about the culty connection with Ruby and the two other models, or even expounded on more of the cultish events that might help explain their behavior, especially the final scene. Malone is a seemingly warm, normal, human connection in a culture of surfaces and attitudes, but when we drop in at her day job styling corpses at a funeral home her whole nature is tossed into question when she uses her subjects as sex dolls. Simply unique. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.com (US). This is style as substance and it is delicious. Needless to say, Amazon is much more likely to produce auteur-driven flicks like The Neon Demon than movies Adam Sandler fart jokes. I would never recommend this movie to anyone, Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016. Don't be fooled, it never gets better; it gets worse and worse. The idea seems to be to take genre flick styles -- car action, revenge, and horror -- and to unravel them to the point where they become pure sensation, almost abstractions. Two hardened, competitive models (Bella Heathcote and Abbey Lee) size her up as the competition immediately at some industry soiree and begin immediately with the head games. Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2018. 1h 57min 2016 18+ From Director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) comes The Neon Demon. 1h 57min 2016 18+ Una giovane modella di sedici anni deve affrontare i soprusi di rivali aggressive e violente invidiose della sua estrema bellezza. Am 23. It might have helped to show a bit more character development. Juni 2016 kam der Film in die deutschen Kinos. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Factory, Criterion Blu-ray: A Matter of Life and Death, Cult Blu-ray: ‘Basket Case,’ ‘Ichi the Killer,’ ‘Macon County’ justice, and ‘The Hidden’ with Kyle Maclachlan. This movie is probably the most unusual movie you will ever see. Neon Cross [Explicit] 4:24 $1.29: 3. To paraphrase Nietzsche: this movie becomes itself inexorably and brilliantly. The Neon Demon was booed at Cannes and panned by critics that saw the film as vapid or shallow, but then that’s taking it all at face value. I don’t see it as failed social satire, as its critics claim, but as a more primal portrait of the obsession for youth and beauty and the drive to control, dominate, package, own, and ultimately devour it. Beauty is the beast in this a horror film as fashion layout. Not a person but a cougar that has already sniffed out the fresh meat in town. Mai 2016 im Rahmen der Internationalen Filmfestspiele von Cannes 2016 seine Premiere feierte, wo der Film auch um die Goldene Palme konkurrierte. Directors Nicolas Winding Refn Starring Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves Genres Horror, Suspense Subtitles None available Audio languages Italiano. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2019. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

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