Toward a Cinema of Noise: Demonlover (2002)

Diane (Connie Nielsen), a woman with short brown hair, reclines on a couch and looks at the viewfinder of a digital camcorder. Her mouth is slightly open in an inscrutable expression of engrossment. She holds a cigarette between her fingers.

|Natalie Marlin| Noise was roiling in Olivier Assayas’s blood as the 20th century neared a close. At the end of his 1996 film Irma Vep, the director of the film-within-a-film has disavowed his initial attempt at a conventional filmmaking style. The star has left the picture. The narrative is… Continue reading