The newest thriller from the master of body horror David Cronenberg! As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. When his partner Caprice (Lea Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed..Their mission: to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Although he announced in 2014 that he had made his last film with Maps To The Stars, director David Cronenberg surprised eight years later with Crimes Of The Future, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. At the age of 79, he returns to what he became so familiar with with cult classics such as The Fly and Crash, provocative horror about the relationship between man and technology.
David Croneberg
In real life people rarely say what they really mean. Partly because feelings are too complex for that, partly because they want to mislead or manipulate in some way. But that’s exactly why I find dialogue so fascinating, it’s inherent in cinema. In my scenario I wanted to be anything but boring, but I wanted to entertain, to provoke. Hence the focus on pain and eroticism, without the presence of pain there can be no pleasure and a piece of sensuality disappears, which is not only true for sadomasochists, but for everyone. I try to make this clear with words in the film and then visualize it.
“Terrifying. Shocking. There Will Be Blood” – The New York Times
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