David Cronenberg Breaks Silence On His Fleshy Return To Cannes With ‘Crimes Of The Future’ – Interview
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: David Cronenberg has been at the cutting edge of horror for more than 50 years, sailing close to the mainstream with edgy early-2000s thrillers such as A History of Violence and Eastern Promises while appeasing the fans of his visceral ’80s work with the likes of 1999’s eXistenZ.
At first glance, his new film Crimes of the Future is very much in the latter mold, a nod to the squishy weirdness of Videodrome with its trippy mantra, “Long live the new flesh.” The tale of an artist working in the field of surgery as art, his upcoming Cannes Competition entry also evokes the specter of Crash, his outrageous automotive-erotic drama that scandalized the Croisette in 1996.DEADLINE: You made a very different short film in 1970 called Crimes of the Future.
Why did you choose to revisit the title?DAVID CRONENBERG: Well, it came about in a very organic way.
It doesn’t have a lot of significance, actually—the original title was Painkillers, and it was over 20 years ago that I wrote the script.
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