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The Neon Demon
2016 118 min United States of America, Denmark, France, Belgium R 18+
★6.1
Horror
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
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Description
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Budget:
$7M
US Gross:
$1.33M
Worldwide:
$3.4M
Starring
Elle Fanning
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Christina Hendricks
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Keanu Reeves
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Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2016
— Best Original Score
Cannes Film Festival 2016
— Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival 2016
— Queer Palm
Key opinion
The Neon Demon is a highly polarizing piece of "art-first" cinema that prioritizes arresting, hallucinatory aesthetics over traditional narrative substance. While audiences and critics are unified in their praise for the film's visual and auditory achievements, they remain deeply divided on the quality of the writing and the effectiveness of the story's emotional resolution.
| Cinematography | The film features exceptional, museum-worthy cinematography and a hypnotically ominous electronic score by Cliff Martinez. | |
| Acting | Elle Fanning delivers a standout, central performance that anchors the film's surreal atmosphere. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is criticized for being hollow and overly reliant on style, leaving characters feeling like underdeveloped caricatures. | |
| Ending | The film's quality is debated, with viewers split on whether the shift into a graphic, surreal thriller in the final act feels like a daring climax or an unsatisfying collapse of the narrative. |