David Cronenberg's already controversial Crimes of the Future is set to premiere in-competition at the Cannes Film Festival this coming Monday, and Neon has now released three clips from the mysterious sci-fi horror movie.
The first finds Kristen Stewart's National Organ Registry agent, Timlin, asking celebrity performance artist named Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) if she can be part of his show, before lobbing the gob in the weirdest way imaginable. Next, we see Timlin uttering the "surgery is the new sex" line to Tenser post-performance, and the final clip shows Caprice (Léa Seydoux) starting to "operate" on her partner.
This looks all kinds of f*cked up, and we'd expect no less from the body horror master!
Cronenberg recently said that he fully expects people to walk out of the film... within the first five minutes!
"There are some very strong scenes," the legendary director told EW. "I mean, I'm sure that we will have walkouts within the first five minutes of the movie. I'm sure of that. Some people who have seen the film have said that they think the last 20 minutes will be very hard on people, and that there'll be a lot of walkouts. Some guy said that he almost had a panic attack. And I say, 'Well, that would be OK.' But I'm not convinced that that will be a general reaction."
The filmmaker has been pushing buttons his entire career, but it sounds like his latest project is going to take things to a whole new level.
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