The Neon Demon is the latest feature film to be directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. The director has made a name for both himself and actor Ryan Gosling with previous films Drive and ...
Films don’t come much more curious than Nicolas Winding Refn’s outlandish “The Neon Demon,” unless they are directed by the great David Lynch. Refn’s semi-enjoyable wack-a-doodle film, which recalls ...
A recommendation of Nicolas Winding Refn’s, THE NEON DEMON prompts the fact that it contains brutal body horror, a sexual moment with a dead body, and serialistic uses of filmmaking technique. That’s ...
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“The Neon Demon,” the latest mind-bender from out-there director Nicolas Winding Refn, is a two-hour fever dream about back-stabbing models with paper-thin bodies — and personalities. Sometimes it’s ...
The film follows Jesse, played by Elle Fanning, a 16-year-old newcomer to Los Angeles who hopes to break into a career in modeling. Her youth and beauty prove irresistible to everyone she encounters — ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The headlines generated by last month’s premiere of “The Neon Demon” at Cannes — virtually all of which singled out the film’s violence, cannibalism and ...
At one point in “The Neon Demon,” a sleazy fashion designer delivers a line that adorns some of the film’s promotional posters: “Beauty isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” It’s one of many pieces ...
There's a whole lotta of strange in The Neon Demon (in theaters Friday). But Elle Fanning isn't the only one getting her weird on as aspiring model Jesse. The strangeness is spread all around. Jena ...
Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more. The Neon Demon, which opens June 24, might ...
The dialogue, peppered with double-meanings. The performances, rife with opaque expressions and characterizations. The cinematography, sumptuous in color and composition. The music, pulsing and ...
“The Neon Demon,” which opens June 24 at select San Diego area theaters, was booed at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. That puts it in good company with “Taxi Driver” and “Pulp Fiction.” ...