About this episode
The episode features Natalie Marlin discussing the complexities and themes of Olivier Assayas’s film DEMONLOVER.
Olivier Assayas’s post-millennium brain-bender DEMONLOVER is only a corporate thriller up to a point. A business deal over distribution rights to commercialize fetish content stirs discord among French enterprise, Japanese production houses, American entrepreneurs, and the hidden forces repeatedly shifting the levers of power. DEMONLOVER the movie becomes as compromised as its playactors: Unanticipated plot shifts, unclear linearity, harsh sound design, and claustrophobic cinematography lend a pervasive feeling between not getting the whole picture and already seeing too much. DEMONLOVER is a very ‘noisy’ film in more ways than one. Writer, movie lover, and noise connoisseur Natalie Marlin is maybe the only person up to the challenge of explaining what that means! Find Natalie… On Twitter and Bluesky On Letterboxd at @framingthepic In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture On Trylove episodes about THE THIRD MAN (1949), CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG…
People in this episode
Host: Trylove
Guest: Natalie Marlin
Topics covered
- corporate thriller
- fetish content
- cultural commentary
- film analysis
- sound design
- cinematography
Keywords
- DEMONLOVER
- Olivier Assayas
- film analysis
- fetish content
- corporate thriller
- sound design
- cinematography
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: DEMONLOVER, THE THIRD MAN, CHESS OF THE WIND, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, MILLENNIUM MAMBO, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, ZARDOZ, NOSTALGHIA
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