She quickly turns the deadbolt, but is left to listen as the intruder breaks into the next room and assaults the thirteen-year-old female occupant inside. She wakes up to hear someone fidgeting with her door lock. Jesse has a nightmare of being forced by Hank, the lecherous motel owner, to sexually swallow a knife. Dean, who disputes Sarno's opinions, requests Jesse to leave, who refuses and now espouses a narcissistic persona. After the show, a visibly-changed Jesse goes out with Dean to a bar, where Sarno negatively compares Gigi to Jean, saying Gigi is not truly beautiful because of her surgery while Jesse is naturally beautiful. As Jesse is closing the show, she hallucinates abstract triangular shapes and reflections of herself. Sarah sucks the blood from Jesse's hand and Jesse rushes back to her motel and faints, hallucinating abstract imagery.Īt Sarno's fashion show, Gigi tells Jesse about the cosmetic surgery. Jesse admits, "It's everything" and Sarah lunges toward her, subsequently cutting Jesse's hand on glass. A distraught Sarah asks her how it feels to be the one everyone admires. Sarno pays no attention to Sarah but is entranced by Jesse. Jesse goes to a casting call for fashion designer Robert Sarno where Sarah is also present. The shoot is successful, and Gigi and Sarah envy Jesse's youth. Jesse is signed by Roberta Hoffman, the owner of a modeling agency, who tells her to pretend she is nineteen and refers her to a test shoot with notable photographer Jack McCarther. She meets photographer Dean, who does her first shoot, and makeup artist Ruby, who introduces fellow older models Sarah and Gigi, who are interested in her physical appearance and her sexual activities, which Jesse feigns to have. It opened to polarized reviews, and ultimately grossed a little over $3 million against a $7 million budget.įollowing the death of her parents, sixteen-year-old aspiring model Jesse has just moved from small-town Georgia to Los Angeles. In the United States, the film was released theatrically on Jby Amazon Studios and Broad Green Pictures. Supporting roles are played by Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Desmond Harrington, Christina Hendricks, and Keanu Reeves.Īn international co-production between France, Denmark, and the United States, the film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the third consecutive film directed by Refn to do so, following Drive (2011) and Only God Forgives (2013).
The plot follows an aspiring model in Los Angeles whose beauty and youth generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry. The Neon Demon is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, co-written by Mary Laws, Polly Stenham, and Refn, and starring Elle Fanning.
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