The Neon Demon
Driving by her big talent and ambitious in the field of modelling, Jesse, a 16 year old beautiful and attractive girl, travels to Los Angeles, where she dreams of having a new and successful professional life, but there, incidents come to frustrate her, as she faces many challenges and the jealous models.
15 January 1978, San Diego, California, USA
2 September 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
30 January 1989, Santa Monica, California, USA
28 June 1972, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 May 1987, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3 May 1975, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
12 June 1987, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1988, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
March 16, 2017
The Neon Demon is as deceptive as shattered glass, with a brilliant beauty so mesmerizing that you don't notice its murderously sharp edges until you're bleeding all over the floor.
February 21, 2017
A thrilling, more delirious and ethereal story than an abnormal narrative, from a plot-pretext and juicy cinephilic references to the work of great directors of the first wave of french cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
January 20, 2017
Grotesque, beautiful, and incredibly compelling.
March 23, 2017
The Neon Demon may not have great dialogue, or a realistic story, or any character you can actually root for. But it's pretty. And I can watch pretty.
June 24, 2016
Things go downhill rapidly as the movie descends into horror material that is laughably grotesque yet so visually cool it remains fatally unfunny.
March 28, 2017
The Neon Demon provides plenty of eye candy, but not much food for thought. As a send-up of the vapid fashion industry, it's got nothing on Zoolander.
June 24, 2016
There's no denying the beauty of Refn's images, even if his puerile instincts are at odds with his obvious pretensions. Those who cry it's shallow and ugly won't be wrong; others will love it for those very reasons.
June 24, 2016
Archly silly, quotable, visually hypnotic and perfectly suited for repeat viewings. On first watch, the film is bizarre, hallucinatory, shockingly gruesome. A second watch unlocks the dumb-clever charms of Refn's script
March 21, 2017
The photograph is stunning. But the story is a hot mess.
June 24, 2016
Refn is hardly the first moviemaker to find a link between supermodels and scary monsters, but he may be the most style-minded one to make the connection. Imagine an issue of Vogue with Maleficent as guest editor.
June 24, 2016
A bold visionary artist, Refn seems able to revel in the culture of instant gratification while also subjecting it to critique.
June 26, 2016
Pretentious and self-indulgent, it seems tailor-made to appeal to lovers of the obtuse and inscrutable until it takes a left-turn into schlocky, gore-drenched splatter imagery.
