David Cronenberg, freezing and disturbing as his best characters.
Less than five minutes … David Cronenberg is so provocative when he talks about the upcoming release of his new film, future crimes (Future Crimes), which will be shown in a few days at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I’m sure people will start coming out of the room after the first five minutes. I have something very clear, ”Cronenberg said dead lineabout his new film, whose casting is led (again) by Viggo Mortensen (nasa Promises to the East ) Lea Seydoux Y Kristen Stewart.
“Hopefully the public will be able to resist it at Cannes, but there are very powerful scenes“, Cronenberg said in an interview with dead line (via IndieWire). And he said: “I’m sure people will start leaving after five minutes,” he repeated.
Cronenberg and Mortensen were already a “cinephile couple”: they produced “Eastern Promises”, “A Violent History” and “A Dangerous Method”.
I mean, it’s loud, Cronenberg warns. “Not even five minutes …” A strange way of promoting a film, it would be said. But no, if it’s Cronenberg’s signature there’s no reason to be surprised. just remember The Fly, Videodrome, Inseparable, Crash, Naked Lunch...
All the chapters of the Canadian filmmaker’s work that, when they are defined, the words “provocative”, “repulsive”, “shocking” and other surprising qualifiers cannot be lost.
What is that about?
The story describes the future society in which people they can change their body through surgeries without experiencing any pain. The plot focuses on Saul Tenser (Mortensen), who manages to organize demonstrations where he tests these aesthetic operations and works beyond what we consider natural.
physical horror, which they say in cinephile jargon, a passion for Cronenberg. “Some people watched the movie they said the last 20 minutes would be very difficult for people, and few will endure them. One man said he almost had a panic attack, “he said more bluntly dead line.
Kristen Stewart, another of the stars of “Crimes of the Future”. Photo by Reuters
“Clack, clack, clack …”
The saying: “Premiere of Cronenberg” is synonymous with controversy, as it was released at the time Fallenthat in his “nut” fetishism full of sexuality angry even with Francis Ford Coppola himself.
Something Cronenberg seems to have enjoyed before: “When people get up to leave, the chairs make ‘clack‘very remarkable -dry the folding chair to lean on-. so listen ‘klak, klakk, klakk“.
Will the ‘clacs’ choir accompany the premiere of crimes…? It’s too early to say, but the film promises a lot in its depiction of a future where organ transplantation has become an art form.
Vigo praises Léa Seydoux
The first awards, after the first private ones, went to Seydoux (Blue Is The Hottest Color ). In a recent note on The Hollywood ReporterVigo Mortensen describes him as “the most committed screen partner he has ever worked with.”
Lea Seydoux will once again walk the red carpet of Cannes, as she did in 2018 for the premiere of “Cold War”. Photo by Reuters
“Leah said,‘ I don’t care what it sounds like or what it looks like, if it’s right for the character and for David, then I’ll go all the way‘. That seems to be his attitude all the time, ”Mortensen said of his co-star.
“Some actors are afraid of certain things, and that’s very specific to them,” Cronenberg explains. “For a film like this, need an unrestrained actor in the immense sense of the wordand Léa certainly brings that to Caprice. “
A few days before the premiere, the question was whether, in the darkness of the Cannes theater, that “Clack, clack, clack!” which Cronenberg knew very well.
Or rather: it takes a few minutes until you hear the first “clack!”.
CJL
Source: Clarin
