What has phallic surgical instruments, digs at celebrity culture, a thirsty Kristen Stewart declaring that 'surgery is the new sex' and is the one new movie you need to see this week? Answer: David Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future.'
isn’t just the first film from Canada’s favorite cinematic son in eight years; it’s a return to the type of gooey, gristly genre-melt that made Cronenberg both a midnight-movie icon and an international sensation. Judging from the way this waking sci-fi nightmare doubles down on the difficulty factor, he’s also trying to make up for a lotta lost time in one fell swoop.
Mortensen’s Saul Tenzer is a big deal in what’s now an extremely popular past time: performance art mutilation. He’s renowned for growing his own oddball internal organs, which he and his partner, a former trauma surgeon named Caprice , extract live for an adoring public. Pain has been evolved, or perhaps devolved, out of the human experience, except in dreams.
No, this is one for the hardcore Cronen-heads, a dense treatise aimed at those who already treat his more outré, boundary-obliterating works as gospel. It’s an opportunity to get Seydoux to purr lines like, “An organism needs organization…otherwise, it’s just designer cancer.” It’s an excuse to have Mortensen fed like a baby in a “chair” made of janky, swaying bones, a concoction that’s exactly one half H.R.
is, in reality, more of a spiritual sister film to that work than the one it shares its name with, down to the specific mix of sex, violence and playfulness, and a climax that doesn’t end the film so much as bring it to an abrupt halt, teetering on the precipice of either epiphany or basic comprehension.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
BTS meets President Biden to discuss surge of anti-Asian hate crimes: 'We are devastated'The K-pop supergroup visited the White House to discuss Asian inclusion and representation with President Biden.
Read more »
K-Pop stars BTS went to the White House to talk about anti-Asian hate crimesK-Pop stars BTS met with President Biden Tuesday to talk about inclusion and representation. There's been an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.
Read more »
War crimes investigation held at The Hague over Russia’s invasion of UkraineRussian forces have been accused of killing civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha and of repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure including hospitals and a theater.
Read more »
South Korea pop band BTS 'devastated' by US hate crimesGlobally famous South Korean K-pop sensation BTS says the group is 'devastated by the recent surge of hate crimes' in the US during a White House visit to meet President Joe Biden
Read more »
Dallas County finalizes list of crimes tied to 2020 George Floyd protestsWith just three weeks to spare before the statute of limitations runs out for prosecuting crimes related to the 2020 protests sparked by the murder of George...
Read more »
‘Crimes of the Future’s Decaying World Reflects the Film’s Anthropocentric EthicsDavid Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future' questions how much humans really care about the world.
Read more »