Technothriller

The techno-thriller and its practitioners may be standing athwart. Tom Clancy, for one, made it clear to me that he has no interest in contemporary literature as Literature. He perennially scorns any salon environs.

Few filmmakers have his feel for the flux and transience of life as we live it, and his movies are especially eloquent in depicting the passage of time, whether it’s the one-year period of awkward realignments among a constellation of Parisian friends in “Late August, Early September” (1998) or the entire life cycle of a marriage in the period epic “Les Destinées Sentimentales” (2000) or even the jet-lagged permanent-present tense of the technothriller “Demonlover” (2002).