So. I finally got around to watching "Demonlover" tonight. Um. Yeah. Not so good. I can handle films that don't have any narrative. I can handle films that have a narrative that is absurdly disjointed. I can handle films that are just a pleasure to look at. I can't handle a film that's so schizoid that it has no clue as to what it's doing.

For the first fifty minutes I thought that Jesse and Linus were just, well, wrong. I found it to be a fairly interesting conceit. Chloe Sevigny's high school French was much worse than mine, but I thought acting was pretty good, the plot interesting and found a lot of the visuals to be almost breathtaking.

Without too many spoilers, Gina Gershon then leaves the film and apparently takes the film's sense with her. It's bad, kids. I can almost piece together what happens, but the plot holes are simply laughable. Character development exists only to completely reversed in the very next scene. Good films with loose plots generally make more sense upon further reflection (Think Lynch. Think Cronenberg). "Demonlover" makes less and less sense as it burrows its absurdity into your skull.

Critics who liked the film (and there were a few) were willing to give director Olivier Assayas a pass on the logic. The visuals, they thought, were too stunning and the mood too hip to simply pan. In some ways they're right. I did enjoy looking at it and don't regret seeing it. However, any film that makes "Mulholland Drive" look like "Sleepless in Seattle" is doing something wrong.