Assayas

Yesterday I watched Boarding Gate, and impressive film by French director Olivier Assayas. It has common elements and a very similar feeling to the other film from this director that I had watched before, Demonlover (well, Demonlover is even better for me, but anyway both films are excellent).

The plot in both films deals with the dark side of the business world. Spying and fighting between two companies trying to gain control of the distribution of Anime porn in the West (Demonlover) and the troubles of a business investor going downhill and involved in a harsh sort of relationship with a femme fatale (Boarding Gate). Both films succed on adding interest and complexity to the story by setting up part of it in societies that still keep a high dose of mystery and charm for many of us, Japan and China.

The combination of action, eroticism and violence will keep you hooked until the end of both stories, and well, when I say eroticism this takes me to the other great common denominator of both films, they are starred by some absolutely gorgeous, ultra sexy women: the viking goddess Connie Nielsen and Gina Gerson in one case and Asia Argento and an Asian beauty in the other case.

Time to get my hands on any of the other Assayas' films, but these two have set the bar quite high.