CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

DAVID CRONENBERG

Canadian director David Cronenberg was born in 1943 in Toronto. While at university, he became interested in film and produced two shorts. His first films were Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970). In 1975, Cronenberg shoted his first commercial feature, Shivers (1975) He directed The Brood (1979), then, Scanners (1981). Cronenberg’s next film, Videodrome (1983) was hailed by Andy Warhol as the “Clockwork Orange of the 80s”. In 1996, he won the Grand Prix du Jury at Cannes with Crash. Then he presented many films at Cannes Film Festival official Competition: Spider (2002) and A History of Violence (2005)… Crime of the Future (2022).

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A haunting look at a future (...) Cronenberg has been able to invest his work with an air of such lyricism, here making Crimes of the Future masterful and intellectually stimulating.

David Katz, Cineuropa