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Crash is a 1996 Canadian erotic thriller film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg, based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name.
Crash: Directed by David Cronenberg. With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger. After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
In one of the most controversial films of his career, David Cronenberg adapts a scandalous J. G. Ballard novel, radically overhauling its story to address a society paralyzed in the headlights of a new millennium.
Mar 21, 1997 · It is a strange and insightful film about human sexual compulsion ("Belle de Jour," "Peeping Tom," and "Damage," are others). By deliberately removing anything that an audience member is likely to find even remotely erotic, Cronenberg has brought a kind of icy, abstract purity to his subject.
Despite the surprisingly distant, clinical direction, Crash's explicit premise and sex is classic Cronenberg territory. Read Critics Reviews
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Nov 9, 2020 · The brand new #4K restoration of #Crash, taken from the original 35mm camera negative and supervised by writer/director #DavidCronenberg and director of photography Peter Suschitzky, is released...
Oct 8, 2021 · David Cronenberg caused hysteria with his take on J G Ballard's novel about car crash fetishists. While it is less controversial now, it startles nevertheless, writes Arjun...
