PREVIEW: Crimes of the Future (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises), Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die), Kristen Stewart (Spencer), Don McKellar (eXistenZ), Scott Speedman (Underworld), Welket Bungué (Body Electric), Lihi Kornowski (The Burglar), Yorgos Karamihos (Like Chef, Like God), Yorgos Pirpassopoulos (Chevalier), Nadia Litz (Rhinoceros Eyes), Tanaya Beatty (Words and Pictures), Denise Capezza (Hep Yek), Sozos Sotiris (film debut), Ephie Kantza (Sisters Apart), Tassos Karahalios (film debut), Jason Bitter (film debut), Penelope Tsilika (Little England)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch), director, writer; Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises), Panos Papahadzis (A Bee in August) and Steve Solomos (Production Office), producers; Howard Shore (Hugo), composer; Douglas Koch (When Night Is Falling), cinematographer; Christopher Donaldson (The Right Kind of Wrong), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the future, humans have adapted to a synthetic environment where their bodies undergo numerous changes and mutations. Saul Tenser (Mortensen) and Caprice (Seydoux), a pair of celebrity avant-garde performance artists, regularly showcase Saul’s inner regenerative organs by having surgery performed upon him which opens him up for the world to see. Soon, Saul is contacted by a mysterious group who wants to use his fame to shed light on the next step of humanity’s evolution…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

For his first feature in eight years, David Cronenberg is back to making good old-fashioned body horror with this dark satire that is, appropriately for this filmmaker, not for the faint of heart.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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