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- Quintessential if not classic Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future finds the director revisiting familiar themes with typically unsettling flair. Read Critics Reviews It has a creative concept and some interesting ideas, but Crimes of the Future might feel like punishment if you aren't a big Cronenberg fan.
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Jun 3, 2022 · A mind-bending sci-fi film by David Cronenberg, exploring the evolution of the human body and the art of surgery in a dystopian future. Read the review by Tomris Laffly, who praises the film's style, eroticism, and themes, but criticizes its vagueness and repetition.
Jun 2, 2022 · ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror. In his latest shocker, David Cronenberg prophetically reads the signs while Léa Seydoux performs surgeries on a beatific Viggo Mortensen....
Quintessential if not classic Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future finds the director revisiting familiar themes with typically unsettling flair. Read Critics Reviews
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- David Cronenberg
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Jun 3, 2022 · Crimes of the Future is Cronenberg to the core, complete with its fair share of authorial flourishes (the moaning organic bed that its characters sleep in is a five-alarm nightmare unto itself) and slogans (“surgery is the new sex”).
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- A movie like this should be way more disgusting.
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By Siddhant Adlakha
Posted: May 30, 2022 2:00 pm
Crimes of the Future will open in limited theaters on June 3, before expanding on June 10.
Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg’s first time behind the camera in eight years, is a deeply frustrating film, filled to the brim with big ideas captured in uninteresting fashion. While Cronenberg remains a conceptual powerhouse, returning to his days as a body horror maestro, his approach to one of his more thoughtful and intimate scripts leaves it wanting for passion, intrigue, and even disgust, the kind that might make the experience feel viscerally complicated, rather than distant and removed (though its performances are certainly engaging).
Set in the future where pain and infection have all but disappeared, and where select humans are blessed with the ability to feel pain as they inexplicably evolve new organs, the film follows a pair of performance artists, Caprice (Léa Seydoux) and Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), whose canvas is the human body, and whose M.O. involves Caprice publicly extracting Tenser’s new body parts in a form of ritualistic surgery. As broad premises go, it’s a fantastic idea, detailed through biomechanical designs that blend skin, bones, and machinery to create therapeutic contraptions reminiscent of elaborate torture devices. Things grow more complicated as Caprice and Tenser capture the attention of police and government bureaucrats concerned with the way human beings are changing — among them, Kristen Stewart as Timlin, a nervous, starstruck surgeon who logs and tattoos each new Tenser organ to mark a new stage of evolution — leading to questions of political allegiance in a rapidly changing world.
Cronenberg’s matter-of-fact approach to this premise yields an amusing absurdism, as his characters elaborate on political mechanics and the illicit nature of their art. Though as they go long on extolling the virtues (and vices) of this new world, the camera rarely captures the way they get swept up in their macabre passions and bodily modifications. It’s a keenly observant film, but one whose observations are about emotional impulse and response to physical stimuli; unfortunately, it rarely embodies that response.
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Despite having wonderfully twisted ideas (and great performances to match them), Crimes of the Future isn’t the triumphant return David Cronenberg fans might have hoped for. Set in a world where the disappearance of pain has led to gory new performance art, the film presents imaginative questions about expression and sexuality, but mostly asks them...
- Siddhant Adlakha
May 23, 2022 · ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart Star in David Cronenberg’s Savage Horror Movie as Metaphor. In a throwback to his squeamish early body-horror...
Jun 3, 2022 · David Cronenberg's film is set in a grim future where humans, having lost the ability to feel physical pain, start operating on their own bodies. This movie mixes blood and guts with great...
