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There’s much time spent at fashion shoots, one of them taking place entirely against a white background where you can’t even see where the floors, walls and ceilings end and begin, and another where she hallucinates kissing her own reflection in a large red prism. These two are played by Bella Heathcoate and Abbey Lee in such an odd, distant manner that it almost seems like we’re watching another version of The Stepford Wives whenever they are on screen. It’s here that Jesse meets Sarah and Gigi who immediately regard Jesse with some suspicion and think that she must be “F******” someone to get even this far. There’s no reason why the location should look like this, but this doesn’t matter at all. She invites Jesse to a party, and we get a simply stunning looking scene where the party is all bathed in blue and the two girls go into the toilets which are lit in a combination of turquoise and pink, and which is simply amazing to behold. In the changing room she meets makeup artist Ruby who prettifies corpses as one of her jobs. The woman is 16 year old Jesse, who wants to be a top model. As I watched this, I recalled with amusement once reading about a fashion show that Dario Argento did where he had the models seemingly stabbed to death and carried off in body bags. The camera slowly pulls back to reveal that the artistic tableaux of death and the wall background it’s against is just a tiny part of a huge, otherwise almost empty, room and it’s all part of a photo shoot. The startling first shot is of a dead girl on a settee with her throat cut and blood dripping from her arm. After all, The Neon Demon makes no attempt to be straight forward even at the beginning.
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But in a film like this, such odd occurrences can add to, rather than detract from, the experience. I’m not sure even of the symbolism here, and this is coming from someone who ‘got’ some of Valhalla Rising right away because he knew a bit about Norse mythology. There’s also a lot of random stuff which makes little sense, like the big cat that turns up in Jesse’s hotel room early on which is never referenced again. There’s the best use of colour in a film since – well, I was going to say Only God Forgives but I could probably go back further than that – and some sequences have such terrific tension that I think Refn should one day make a more conventional suspense picture. In terms of storyline and what it’s trying to say, it’s not – truth be told – very original, and the dialogue is sometimes groan-inducingly bad, but it’s drenched in such glorious style that I was willing to forgive quite a lot. However, for those of you who wish that you were living in the first two thirds of the 70’s where crazy, self indulgent films were being made all the time by filmmakers who didn’t seem to care whether anybody would actually like what they came up with, or who still haven’t got over the fact that David Lynch will probably never make another picture, or who think that Darren Aronovsky has become far too mainstream, than The Neon Demon could well be the film for you….and it does seem that the picture has its fans.
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Refn’s bizarre melding of Starry Eyes, Black Swan, Showgirls, Suspiria and the obscure Belgian vampire movie Daughters Of Darkness at times seems designed to deliberately baffle and annoy, with no concessions to commerciality at all. Somebody even thinks it’s the worst film he has ever seen. The Neon Demon didn’t even make it to many UK cinemas and a quick glance at the IMDB comments reveal much use of words like “boring”, “pointless” and “vapid”. But something drew me back to it, and I bought the DVD, and second time round I bloody loved the thing. His last venture, Only God Forgives, seemed to me to be a cold, remote exercise and much ado about nothing when I saw it in the cinema. Nicolas Winding Refn is a very divisive filmmaker, to the point where even I sometimes have trouble trying to work out whether I liked one of his films or not.
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The shoot is successful, but Gigi and Sarah begin envying Jesse’s youth, while Ruby is fascinated with her….
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Jesse goes to the photo shoot with Jack, who calls for a closed set and covers her naked body in paint.
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After going on a date with another photographer called Dean, she returns to her motel room to find it ransacked and occupied by a feline resembling a cougar, and the unsavoury manager, Hank, demands that she pay for the damages. She gets signed by the owner of a big modelling agency who tells her to pretend she is 19 and refers her to a test shoot with a notable photographer, Jack. REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Criticġ6 year old aspiring model Jesse moves from small-town Georgia to Los Angeles and meets makeup artist Ruby and older models Sarah and Gigi. Written by: Mary Laws, Nicolas Winding Refn, Polly Stenham