David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen, director and star of “Crimes of the Future,” released in Cannes. Photo EFE/EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo
Canadian director David Cronenberg said on Tuesday, May 23 at the Cannes Film Festival, that the United States was “completely insane”, in reference to the Supreme Court’s expected decision that federal protection for abortion may be revoked.
“There is always a government somewhere in the world that wants to control its population. In Canada, we think the United States is completely mad, judging by what some officials are saying, not just because of the Roe-Wade case, but because of everything else, ”David Cronenberg said in a news conference.
Case Background
David Cronenberg spoke to the press about the possible illegalization of abortion in the United States. Photo EFE
Roe v. Wade refers to the 1973 decision in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects the freedom of a pregnant woman to terminate her pregnancya protection that can be revoked in a sentence expected by the end of June.
“We’re talking about Russia and Ukraine, but I feel similar vibration on our southern border,” lamented the director, who is competing for the Palme d’Or in future crimesa futuristic horror film where he returned to his obsession with the human body.
Cronenberg’s first film in eight years freceived this Tuesday with a standing ovation that lasted six minutes at its premiere in Cannes. The script, which he wrote 20 years ago, takes place in a synthetic world, where no pain and the operation is “the new sex”.
The stars are two recognized performing artists, played by Vigo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux, who won their performances where remove artificially generated new organs from their bodies.
Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, David Cronenber and Kristen Stewart posed in Cannes. Photo REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
What do you think of your film?
David Cronenberg does not consider it a political film, more so than any form of cultural expression. “All my movies are very intimatethe most I have filmed in my life is the human body and what I have proposed is a discussion about the human condition from the body ”, he said.
On the environmental implications of a story where there are characters literally eating plastic, the filmmaker recalled that when he wrote the script “no one talks about microplastics”, but in a recent study. Traces of microplastics were found in 80% of human bodies examined.
“One option we have is to clean all the oceans and human bodies of microplastics, but it’s not very convincing, so the alternative is to accept it, it’s a theoretical suggestion but there’s some truth to it, there’s scientists investigating the possibility of eating plastic ”.
Lea Seydoux and David Cronenberg, at the “Crimes of the Future” conference. Photo by AFP
His prediction for the festival
New new future crimesthe director believes it won’t take the public even five minutes to watch the film.
I’m sure that people will start leaving the room after the first five minutes. I have something very clear, ”David Cronenberg told Deadline, about his new film.
“Hopefully the public will be able to resist it at Cannes, but there are very powerful scenes“Cronenberg assured in an interview. However, the public not only gave him six minutes of applause at the beginning of the screening, but also stayed to watch the entire film.
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