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Crash by David Cronenberg – Olivier Père

Between the title of JG Ballard’s novel and that of the film, an exclamation point has disappeared. This lack, wanted by Cronenberg, suffices to express what Crash (1996) is not, and maybe it is. Those who expected a film full of sound and fury, built around the adrenaline of speed and the din of roaring … Read more

“The Crimes of the Future”: Cronenberg with the scalpel

by Fowler Marion

Veterans of international cinema, at regular intervals, like to unveil requiem-like fictions at the Cannes Film Festival in which they evoke themes that have obsessed them since the start of their careers. Last year, with “Benedetta”, Paul Verhoeven, 83, thus signed a kind of film-summary where, by drawing the portrait of the sulphurous and lesbian … Read more