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‘Crimes of the Future’ review: Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg present a cold, feral vision of the future

A chillingly beautiful dare of a movie, David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” imagines a near-future much like the present, only colder and more feral.

Chicago Tribune

From The Fly to A History of Violence: our writers pick their favourite Cronenberg movies

With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings

The Guardian - US

‘Crimes of the Future’: Commentary’s sharp and so are the scalpels in the year’s freakiest film

People are cutting their mutating bodies in David Cronenberg’s unsettling but thought-provoking dystopian nightmare.

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Film show: David Cronenberg's dystopian sci-fi horror blends surgery and sex

Fresh from her 34th trip to the Cannes Film Festival, FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson shares her highlights from the 75th edition. One of her favourites is "Crimes of the Future", an eerie dystopian tale starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as a couple who perform surgery on each…

France 24

David Cronenberg says he ‘harassed’ Viggo Mortensen into starring in Crimes of the Future

Actor had initially wanted to play a ‘cop’ in the film

The Independent UK

The next step in evolution

The maestro is teasing us, with his favourite instrument: the scalpel. Mechanical, electrified scalpels that split open the flesh -- often, the belly -- like a bulging purse being unzipped. This time, what comes out of the belly is a menagerie of grotesque organs -- organs with neither names nor…

Bangkok Post

Léa Seydoux, Once Again, Rules the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux. The French actress has already shared in a Palme d’Or at the festival, in 2013 for “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which made her and Adèle Exarchopoulos the first actors to ever win Cannes’ top prize, which they shared with…

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Q&A: Kristen Stewart on Body Horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee. In Cronenberg’s film, a Cannes Film Festival entry opening June 3 in theaters,…

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Q&A: Kristen Stewart on body horror, Cronenberg and Cannes

In David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee

The Independent UK

Crimes of the Future: Kristen Stewart ‘really f***ing proud’ of improvised scene with Viggo Mortensen

‘That was not in the script,’ actor said

The Independent UK

Cannes 2022: A unique perspective on a 19th-century voyage to Iceland in 'Godland'

All eyes are on the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear has been checking out the “Un Certain Regard” sidebar section. Icelandic director Hlynur Palmason takes us on a cinematic voyage back to 19th-century Iceland in "Godland", as a Danish…

France 24

‘The US is completely insane’: David Cronenberg on Roe v Wade at Cannes film festival

The Canadian director made the comments at a press conference for his latest body horror film Crimes of the Future

The Guardian - UK

Movie review: Surgery, sex and superfluous human organs converge in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’

Early on in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” a speculative horror-comedy as wildly deranged as it is beautifully controlled, we witness a live demonstration that functions as an art show, a medical procedure and a very public seduction. The nearly naked man encased in the large, mechanized sarcophagus is…

Los Angeles Times

Crimes of the Future, Cannes review: S&M kitsch and an arch Kristen Stewart result in mid-tier Cronenberg

In its lesser moments, the body horror maestro’s new film is clunky and very close to self-parody

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The Guardian - UK

Crimes of the Future review – Cronenberg’s post-pain, post-sex body horror sensation

As he did with 90s hit Crash, the director creates a bizarre new society of sicko sybarites where pain is the ultimate pleasure and ‘surgery is the new sex’

The Independent UK

Léa Seydoux, once again, rules the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux

Asharq Al-Awsat

The 21 Films in Competition at Cannes

This year's Cannes Film Festival starting Tuesday has 21 films in competition, including movies from four past winners of the top prize Palme d'Or, as well as several cult favorites. The winners of the 75th edition are to be announced at the closing ceremony on May 28, AFP said. -…

Bangkok Post

In Cannes, it's cinema as usual

After the cancellation in 2020 and a bump to the month of July in 2021 -- with smaller attendance as international travel was still interrupted -- the Cannes Film Festival returns to its usual mid-May slot, keyed up and fully prepped to show the world that it's cinema, and the…

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The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best David Cronenberg films

As the Canadian master of the perverse returns to Cannes with his first film in eight years, what better time to look back at his career, from Shivers to Crash

The Independent UK

Stomach-churning, creepy and surreal: David Cronenberg’s return to body horror

With Cronenberg’s latest film ‘Crimes of the Future’ about to screen in Cannes, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the director’s morbid fascination with body horror, and says it’s a real achievement if it provokes as much outrage as his bloodiest earlier works

The Guardian - UK

Body shock: why Cronenberg’s kidney stones could be the saviour of NFTs

He’s been incubating his latest work for the past two years. Now the Canadian film-maker is auctioning it off to the crypto community – and what an incredible bargain it is

Radio France Internationale

French actor Vincent Lindon to head Cannes film festival jury

French actor Vincent Lindon will head the main jury at this year's Cannes film festival which awards the coveted Palme d'Or prize.

Asharq Al-Awsat

75th Cannes to Feature Cronenberg, Chan-Wook and ‘Elvis’

Films by David Cronenberg, Park Chan-wook and Kelly Reichardt will vie for the coveted Palme d’Or at a Cannes Film Festival set to unspool against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. Cannes film festival artist director Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure announced the lineup to this year’s festival,…

Inverse

'Crimes of the Future' trailer breakdown: 8 disturbing images from David Cronenberg’s new sci-fi thriller

The first trailer for director David Cronenberg's 'Crimes of the Future' packs quite a punch. Here's what you should know about the new film, along with 8 of the most disturbing images from its first teaser.

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2022: the alpha auteurs line up for a post-pandemic party

The film festival announces itself back to normal, with a new TikTok partnership and a juicy competition list featuring David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, the Dardenne brothers and Kelly Reichardt

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