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Release Date: September 19, 2003 (NY, LA)

Studio: Palm Pictures

Director: Olivier Assayas

Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas

Starring: Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chlo� Sevigny, Gina Gershon,
Jean-Baptiste Malartre, Dominique Reymond, Edwin Gerard, Thomas M.
Pollard, Abi Sakamoto, Julie Brochen, Jorgen Doering, Jean-Charles Dumay,
Jean-Pierre Gos, Randal Holden, Alexandre Lachaux, Gilles Masson, Mathias
Mlekuz, Nao Omori, Alexis Pivot, Ludovic Schoendoerffer, Taro Suwa, Ikko
Suzuki, Naoki Yamazaki

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: Not available

Official Website: Demonlover.Cinema.Lycos.fr (French)

Plot Summary: A young woman, Diane, works for a multinational corporation
run by Henri-Pierre Volf. In the logic of the diversification of its activities - from
real estate to clothing design - the Volf Group is negociating the acquisition of
TokyoAnime, a Japanese company which produces a new form of manga and
their pornographic version, henta�, in digital 3D images that will outdate and
destroy the competition in this extraordinarily lucrative market. Two companies
battle to obtain exclusive diffusion of Volf's new images on the Web:
Mangatronics and Demonlover. Mangatronics has recruted Diane as a sort of
industrial spy to serve its interests by torpedoing the Demonlover contract from
within. The links between Demonlover and various violent and illegal
pornographic sites dangerously weakens the relationship with the Volf Group,
unaware of the existence of those secret sites. Diane discovers that they also
have their strategy and their spies in the form of her seemingly neutral, naive
colleagues. She ends up knowing too much and becomes a danger to
Demonlover. Soon there is no way out, except fading into the cyber-reality of
which she was perhaps a part from the start.