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A real change of direction for French filmmaker Olivier Assayas: following his historical family epic Les Destinées Sentimentales comes this feverish corporate cyber-thriller, its shiny surfaces and luxurious settings concealing troubling questions about our obsession with electronic images and virtual experiences.
A glamorous female cast (Connie Nielsen, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon) play the ultra-chic and ruthlessly ambitious rival business executives. Their trade? Battling for the global distribution rights to the output of a Japanese firm specialising in 3D animated porn. Assayas tears up the conventional storytelling rulebook, embracing an increasingly dreamlike narrative as the characters come to resemble players in their own fantasy-driven videogame. Courageous stuff.
The Inside Out 2 panic attack scene is one of the best depictions of anxiety ever – and something Pixar director Kelsey Mann is incredibly proud of: "I couldn't be happier"
When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist
The Witcher fans in shambles after a new book reveals just how old Geralt really is
