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A good year after the start of the project, David Cronenberg is ready to unveil to the world Crimes of the Futurethe film produced by Robert Lantos and distributed by NEON which marks his return to directing and body horror.
The film, in which they act Viggo Mortensen (as it is known), Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, will premiere at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival; is the first sci-fi written by the director since eXistenZ of 1999, as well as the first since Maps to the Stars (2014) which starred Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson.
While the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes unprecedented transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a well-known artist, publicly shows the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. National Organ Registry investigator Timlin (Kristen Stewart) follows their every move, when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission, to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next stage in human evolution.
Synopsis
There is a movie with the same title – Crimes of the Future – written and directed by Cronenberg in 1970; plot and characters are however distinct. Ergo the new film, shot between Greece, Canada and the United States, is not a remake of what, like the previous Stereohad no dialogue but a single narrative voice that told the evolution of the plot on the screen.
For Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg will be the fourth film together after A History of Violence, The Assassin’s Promise and A Dangerous Method. On SA you can retrieve the reviews of the first two, A History of Violence and Assassin’s Promiseas well as the Classic one dedicated to Scanners.
