The Neon Demon
Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles just after her 16th birthday to launch a career as a model. There, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
3 May 1975, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
19 June 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 March 1977, USA
27 February 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
21 November 1984, Sparks, Nevada, USA
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.
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.
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]
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
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 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 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.
January 20, 2017
Grotesque, beautiful, and incredibly compelling.
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.
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.
