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    A Sci-fi Film With a Lighthearted, Apocalyptic Vision

    David Cronenberg’s <em>Crimes of the Future</em> could double as an elegy to the entertainment industry itself.
    by David Sims Jun 02, 2022 3 minutes
    Source: Nikos Nikolopoulos / NEON

    The gray-haired, cloak-wearing protagonist of David Cronenberg’s new science-fiction film, , is a very particular sort of conceptual artist. Saul Tenser (played by Viggo Mortensen) sleeps in a bizarre contraption that looks like a spiky womb, speaks with the cadence of someone being strangled, and is constantly growing new organs, which his partner, Caprice (Léa Seydoux), surgically removes from his body for a live audience. The primary question that vexes him is not how to survive his curious condition, but one that has

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