David Cronenberg, director of Crash, The Naked Lunch and A History of Violence, said that “the United States is completely crazy.”
Speaking to the press at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his new film Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg specifically referred to attempts to revoke Roe v Wade. “In Canada. strange times “.
Cronenberg then suggested a parallel to Russia’s attitudes toward Ukraine. “We’re talking about Putin and the invasion of Ukraine, but then south of the Canadian border we hear strangely similar vibrations.”
After pioneering the cinematic style of “body horror” in films such as Shivers, Rabid and Videodrome, Cronenberg said he had felt compelled to return to the subject of “who owns the body of whom “in Crimes of the Future, which follows a performance artist. (played by Viggo Mortensen) that can grow new organs as part of a new stage in human evolution.
Saying he first wrote the script 20 years ago, Cronenberg said the topic had become even more relevant. “You can feel, even then, that this was coming. A kind of oppressive ownership and control. It’s the constant of history, that there is somewhere in the world that wants to control its population. That means, once again, the body is the reality. You control people’s bodies, that’s speaking, expressing yourself. That’s control. “
Crimes of the Future received a standing ovation at its Cannes premiere and is considered one of the main contenders for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.