David Cronenberg directs Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart in a story about an artist who stages the metamorphosis of his organs.
‘Crimes of the Future’ takes something that has always been known to another level, that David Cronenberg is capable of venturing, with a long time frame, the changes in the human being from all possible angles: physical, technological and moral. Why do you take that gift to another level here? On the one hand, because the first version of the script for this film is from 1998: how is it possible to pose, 25 years earlier, possible answers to the questions that human beings are beginning to ask themselves now?
On the other, because, at a time when few filmmakers dare to enter the garden of the great themes of the present and embrace the chaos, confusion and ignorance around them (Julia Ducournau would be an exception with ‘Titane’ ), Cronenberg not only embraces them, but projects them into the future. He obviously plays with the advantage that the issues that have taken over the present –and that are so frightening because they imply rupture, change and evolution– are the issues on which his filmography is articulated: the transformation of bodies, identity and the physical, psychological and moral implications of change.
A physical and ideas cinema
Based on the story of a performance artist (Viggo Mortensen) who has turned the mutations of his body into a show, Cronenberg projects these themes into the future, represents them, thinks about them and talks about them with the usual daring. He does what he always does, but makes decisions that make ‘Crimes of the Future’ an extraordinary film, but elusive even for those who know his cinema well. very physical, it is a cinema of ideas). But in his latest work, the relationship between the word and the shock image (full of meaning) is more complex.
Cronenberg orally supports the ideas, but also verbalizes the inaccuracies, contradictions, deviations and doubts of the thought process.. You have to make an effort not to get overwhelmed by this verbal and philosophical whirlwind, which is also extremely interesting. But it is the way to enjoy a film full of ideas, which dares to establish an adult dialogue with the present and the future, with contemporary cinema and with the filmography of its author. Also in which the most desired Cronenberg (the most physical) is super present. ‘Crimes of the future’ has some of the most radical scenes of the filmmaker’s work. That the fear of words, although Cronenberg imposes them on us from the trailer –”It is time to stop seeing, it is time to stop speaking, it is time to listen”–, does not prevent us from enjoying them.
For fans of David Cronenberg and of the cinema that recovers something as exotic today as ideas
DATA SHEET
Address: David Cronenberg Interpreters: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué Country: Canada Year: 2022 Release date: 09-23-2022 Gender: Science fiction Script: David Cronenberg Duration: 107 minutes
Synopsis: When the human species adapts to an artificial environment, the human body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With the help of his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, a celebrated artist, stages the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde shows. Timlin, a researcher with the Office of the National Organ Registry, closely follows her practices. That’s when a mysterious group appears: they want to take advantage of Saul’s fame to reveal to the world the next stage of human evolution…
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