Midnight Screenings 2022 / Crimes of the Future / Canada, Greece 2021
David Cronenberg has set his latest film at an unspecified date in the future when people no longer suffer physical pain. Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart star in another inimitably bizarre work by the Canadian icon of body horror as he asks where the “synthetic age” is taking us, what sex might look like in an era of newly discovered thrills, and who owns whose body today.
David Cronenberg has set his latest film at an unspecified date in the future when people no longer suffer physical pain. Nevertheless, human bodies continue to rebel against their owners, for instance by uncontrollably mutating. Saul (Viggo Mortensen) even produces entirely new organs, which his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux) removes at avant-garde performances. This oddity cannot escape the attention of Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry… The Canadian icon of body horror is back with another post-organic visual concept in which he asks, in his inimitably bizarre manner, where the “synthetic age” is taking us, what sex might look like in an era of newly discovered thrills, and who owns whose body today.
Martin Horyna
107 min / Color, DCP
Director David Cronenberg
/ Screenplay David Cronenberg
/ Dir. of Photography Douglas Koch
/ Music Howard Shore
/ Sound Tom Bjelic
/ Editor Christopher Donaldson
/ Art Director Carol Spier
/ Producer Robert Lantos
/ Production Serendipity Point Films
/ Coproduction Argonauts Productions S.A.
/ Cast Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungue, Don McKellar
/ Sales Rocket Science
David Cronenberg (1943, Toronto). Selected filmography: Crash (1996), Spider (2002), A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011), Cosmopolis (2012), Maps to the Stars (2014), Crimes of the Future (2021).
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