Director: David Cronenberg. Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart. 107 min. Sci-fi/Horror.
- Cronenberg is back to his 70s and 80s "body horror" origins, with all those gross, gooey, slimy body issues that are more grotesque than scary. This time it's in a future where physical pain no longer exists, and underground "mutated artist" groups put up shows of dissecting and harvesting newly created internal body organs ("artsy tumors"), either with an audience or live on camera.
- While I was delighted to find Cronenberg back at his bizarre sense of horror (this time with some of the most attractive faces in the business), and while the main character's integration with machines to create new organs reminded of Cronenberg's own metal-fetish Crash (1996), or the recent Palm d'Or winner Titane (2021), the thought process behind repackaging and delivering his 80's style into our post-Covid times (when the concept of disease and "pain" could have far more connotations), was lost on me. Would've preferred to see Mortensen, Seydoux and Stewart in a plot as convoluted but less arthouse-like, in the able hands of David Cronenberg.
MoGo's rating: 6/10
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