David Cronenberg’s new movie, The Crimes of the Futurereveals itself a little more in a new trailer.
In 2021, for the return of Cannes after a year suffocated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the second feature film by Julia Ducournau, Titanium, was awarded the famous Palme d’Or. This crazy trip on the border between cinematographic and sexual genres was a creation with DNA straight inherited from the cinema of David Cronenberg, a great influence of the filmmaker. A consecration for the cinema of the body and the flesh which will make its comeback this year on Cannes screens with the screening of The Future Crimesthe new film directed by the master of body-horror.
Using the name of one of his first works, the filmmaker behind Fly, Crash et A History of Violence is back with a new narrative where the human body is subject to various transformations and mutations. Between the director’s return behind the camera, eight years after his last feature film, and a more than enticing cast led by Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, The Crimes of the Future is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated films of 2022.
While waiting for its screening in Cannes in parallel with the start of its exploitation in the cinema, a new trailer revealed a bit more.
In these new images, we find the filmmaker’s obsessions with the obsolescence of the body and sexuality, but also with the way in which the flesh becomes a new source of spectacle and experimentation. We find the strange modules ofexistencethe cold eroticism of Crash and the bodily clefts of Videodrome in what seems to be a proposal that does not hesitate to dialogue with the filmmaker’s previous works.
The elegant photography of Douglas Koch and the electronic music of Howard Shore are combined, in any case in these images, admirably with the toxic staging of Cronenberg. The strangeness of a Viggo Mortensen who mutilates himself for his art coupled with surprising appearances like that of a kind of dancer with multiple ears not intuitively located on his body release a feeling of discomfort in just 2 minutes of extract.
We can’t wait to discover what’s hidden behind the 1h47 of this The Crimes of the Future which will be unveiled on May 25 in French cinemasare. Just enough time to review the entirety of David Cronenberg’s huge shop of horrors and prepare for the return of the new pulpit to the big screen.
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