The Neon Demon

The main film of the Instagram era, where form has finally completely pushed out content.

"The Neon Demon" is more of a designer object than a movie. Its plot in a detailed retelling would take three or four sentences (the setup is that naive teenager Jesse arrives in Los Angeles and becomes a model and an object of universal desire). Half of the scenes take place in some glossy villas in Beverly Hills covered in golden dust, the other half in absolutely white or absolutely black spaces.

"The Demon" is a captured hallucination completely detached from any meanings, or connection to reality. It seems that the silent photographer—a demigod of this strange world—represents the director in the frame; surely he would also like to work in this white studio that seems to be an ideal airless void.

- Andrey Kartashov for the magazine "Seans"