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CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
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OUT 9 SEPTEMBER / CERT 18 107 MINS
DIRECTOR David Cronenberg
CAST Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman
PLOT The future. Humans have evolved, pain can’t be felt and surgery is the new sex. With partner Caprice (Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Mortensen) is famed for sacrificing his organs as erotic performance art, but with the emergence of a mysterious group comes a sinister development: are humans evolving too fast?
IN MAY, WHEN it played at Cannes, Crimes Of The Future was met with a quivering river of walk-outs, but also a six-minute standing ovation. Even in the fickle hysteria of Cannes, it was obvious Cronenberg’s latest would prove divisive. With its slurpy autopsies and opulent wound-licking, this is not a film to watch munching a hotdog, or God forbid a burrito, but what did those Cannes walk-outers expect? Objecting to Cronenberg being transgressive is like complaining Michael Bay films have too many explodo-booms. Provocative is what he does.