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Crimes of the Future
Dir David Cronenberg, Canada 2021 In cinemas from 9 September
It’s been more than two decades since body horror maestro David Cronenberg’s last foray into the horror sub-genre that his career once largely revolved around, but Crimes of the Future sees the veteran filmmaker return to the visually unsettling and more bizarre type of cinema that established him as an icon of horror cinema.
With a strong cast that includes Cronenberg’s long-time collaborator Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux as two performance artists who also share a domestic partnership, the film portrays a dystopian future where humans have become incapable of feeling pain, turning surgery into a perversely sensual type of art as Seydoux’s Caprice cuts into Mortensen’s Saul to
