The Neon Demon

118 mins
6.6 / 10 (7642)
19

Synopsis

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

MUBI's take

Following two films with Ryan Gosling, Nicolas Winding Refn enlists Elle Fanning for the dazzling, hypnotic Neon Demon—an entrancing and especially stylized indictment of the ugliest grotesqueries of the modelling industry. A visually stunning, self-conscious satire of the horrors of vapidity.