The Neon Demon
First screened in June 2016
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn. Cast: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Desmond Harrington, Alessandro Nivola, Charles Baker. Screenplay: Nicolas Winding Refn and Mary Laws & Polly Stenham. Twitter Capsule:
We've all met this Project Runway designer: technically precocious executor of ghastly or trite ideas. Meretricious.
Second Capsule:
Huge props, though, to sound designers Anne Jensen and Eddie Simonsen, cinematographer Natasha Braier, and stalwart composer Cliff Martinez.
VOR:③
LA is image-obsessed and full of carnivorous rivalries?? Especially for age- and beauty-obsessed women?? At least sounds and images live on the edge.