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David Cronenberg's latest sci-fi horror, "Crimes of the Future," has a lot of people talking ... #Cannes2022
David Cronenberg's latest sci-fi horror, "Crimes of the Future," has a lot of people talking ... #Cannes2022
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00:00What do you want people to take away from this film?
00:05A good, honest look at themselves.
00:09Might not be quite legal.
00:24You know, to think that we'd have to actually slice each other open to feel something.
00:27It's a kind of beautiful, tender way of looking at things, even though it's a little extreme.
00:35You know, it's within, I guess, a film noir that provokes a lot of thoughts.
00:42It's also a love story, an unusual love story.
00:45And a story in which the two have an unbreakable connection.
00:49They are very proud and very determined artists, you know, kind of revolutionary, subversive artists in a way.
00:59And as a team they are subversive, but they are willing to sacrifice some of their individual creative ambitions
01:07for the physical well-being of the other person in the end, which I think is beautiful.
01:13I think it's just really easy to lose sight of how important it is to kind of just acknowledge what you feel like.
01:19The most alive I've ever felt is when I'm in like, you know, the most turmoil.
01:24And to kind of celebrate that and not try and numb yourself to it is one way to live.
01:30And some people sort of ignore themselves.
01:32It's just really nice to acknowledge how intense it is to have one.
01:50There are creatures on the earth for whom reality is quite a different thing.
01:57All reality is relative.
01:59And it's relative to what our bodies are designed to give us.
02:05And as a filmmaker, what is it that you film?
02:10You film the human body. I mean, what actors are giving you is their body.
02:14And I include in that their voice, the way they move.
02:17I don't see how you could be a filmmaker and not be obsessed with the human body.