Boarding Gate
Why this pick
Assayas returns to Demonlover’s chilly corporate underworld: unstable alliances, erotic power games, international transit, and a protagonist pushed through sleek spaces where information is leverage.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Assayas returns to Demonlover’s chilly corporate underworld: unstable alliances, erotic power games, international transit, and a protagonist pushed through sleek spaces where information is leverage.
Why this pick
Its polished workplace warfare and shifting female power dynamic echo Demonlover’s ice-cold corporate menace, sustaining tension through manipulation rather than conventional action.
Why this pick
A similarly disorienting, sensual French nightmare, with fragmented international movement, clinical modern surfaces, and an unnerving descent into desire and bodily menace.
Why this pick
This earlier techno-paranoia nightmare shares Demonlover’s interest in technology becoming invasive, sexualized control—stylized as a claustrophobic, increasingly unreal psychological thriller.
Why this pick
Its immaculate, sterile visual world turns media consumption and corporate desire into physical horror, matching Demonlover’s fascination with commodified bodies and chilling digital-age alienation.
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01 / THE STORY
Diane de Monx (Nielsen) is an executive trying to negotiate a deal to acquire the rights to the productions of a Japanese anime studio, which will soon include three-dimensional hentai, for the Volf Corporation. To facilitate the acquisition, she eliminates her superior, Karen (Dominique Reymond), and assumes control of her portfolio, her business partner Hervé (Berling), and her assistant Elise (Sevigny). Elise, however, despises Diane and works to frustrate her negotiations at every opportunity. Diane and Hervé travel to Japan to close the deal, and they enjoy a sexual flirtation which is unfulfilled at that time and seem to grow to like one another.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Diane de Monx

Elaine Si Gibril

Elise Lipsky

Hervé Le Millinec
Ray
Chauffeur d'Elise
Père de Frankie

Japon - Avocat #1