David Cronenberg Gets Back to Basics in Crimes of the Future

It’s too bad that the title Bodies Bodies Bodies is already taken (by an upcoming horror film), because it would be a great name for David Cronenberg’s new film, Crimes of the Future, which premiered here at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. Cronenberg’s first film in eight years is about body obsession, imagining a time maybe decades (or more?) from now when humanity eagerly melds with the synthetic. In some ways, Crimes of the Future is an eco-horror, an imagining of where our species might be headed now that there have been microscopic bits of plastic found teeming in… Read Full Article