Dominique Reymond

When Blanche and Gregoire's passionate marriage grows deeply possessive and dangerous, she looks for ways to escape his threatening affections.

Diane works for VolfGroup, a hugely powerful conglomerate that is negotiating the acquisition of TokyoAnime, whose revolutionary pornographic 3D manga is set to annihilate the competition in an extraordinarily lucrative market. Two companies are battling for exclusive rights to Volf's content: Mangatronics and Demonlover. Mangatronics has recruited Diane to torpedo Demonlover from within, and she finds a connection with the latter company and an interactive torture website known as "The Hellfire Club." However, Diane is soon challenged every step of the way by her amoral colleague, an antagonistic and mysterious assistant, and an outspoken, pot-smoking American executive.

Family traditions are challenged by new attitudes in this restrained, exquisite film from Olivier Assayas: a filmmaker whose cinema covers a diverse range of genres and milieus, collectively transforming modern anxieties into engrossing drama. With the late Edith Scob, and a blonde-haired Binoche!