What's it about?A delicate young girl enters the viper's nest of the Los Angeles modelling world where retirement often strikes just when you reach the legal drinking age, as sparkly dreams give way to DayGlo-coloured nightmares.
Who would I recognise in it?Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, and others.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?Nicolas Winding Refn (
Drive) seems to be striving to reach a 'post-narrative' world of his own. The plot to
The Neon Demon could be written on the back of a postage stamp (
surprising, then, that the screenplay was penned by three people), with the climax never really daring to push narrative boundaries. Here, style is king - and doesn't it look (
and sound) good? However, strip that away and - much like your average model's lunch - there's little nourishment on offer...
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