Country: Canada, UK
Year: 1996
Duration: 100'
After a serious accident, an advertising filmmaker begins to associate sexual pleasure with car-related danger and mutilations and he encounters other victims of accidents and fetishists. Cronenberg, a poet of the contamination between machines and mutant bodies, makes one of the few film adaptations of the disturbing distortions of the maestro of the “contemporary future,” J.G. Ballard, a clear-eyed observer of a present invaded by consumer goods and inanimate projections of the libido and desires. The result is a sinuous and lucid portrait of a world set on self-destruction.
Biography
film director
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg (Toronto 1943) got his start in the 1960's with a few short films, moving on to television in the early 1970's. His first movie was Shivers (1975), which brought him to the attention of horror fans. His films Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983) were great international successes. In 1986 he brought the classic The Fly to the screen and, two years later, made one of his most memorable films, Dead Ringers. In 1991 he transposed The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs for the big screen. Crash (1996) won the Jury's Grand Prize at the festival in Cannes and eXistenZ (1999) won the Silver Bear in Berlin. Spider won a prize as best Canadian film at the festival in Toronto.
FILMOGRAFIA
Shivers (Il demone sotto la pelle, 1975), Rabid (Rabid - Sete di sangue, 1977), Fast Company (Veloci di mestiere, 1979), The Brood (Brood, covata malefica, 1979), Scanners (id., 1981), Videodrome (id., 1983), The Dead Zone (La zona morta, 1983), The Fly (La mosca, 1986), Dead Ringers (Inseparabili, 1988), The Naked Lunch (Il pasto nudo, 1991), M. Butterfly (id., 1993), Crash (id., 1996), eXistenZ (id., 1999), Spider (id., 2002), A History of Violence (id., 2005), Eastern Promises (La promessa dell’assassino, 2007), A Dangerous Method (id., 2011), Cosmopolis (id., 2012), Maps to the Stars (id., 2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer
David Cronenberg
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by J.G. Ballard
fotografia/cinematography
Peter Suschitzky
montaggio/film editing
Ronald Sanders
musica/music
Howard Shore
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
James Spader (James Ballard), Holly Hunter (Helen Remington), Elias Koteas (Vaughan), Deborah Kara Unger (Catherine Ballard), Rosanna Arquette (Gabrielle)
produzione/production
Alliance Communications Corporation, The Movie Network, Recorded Picture Company, Téléfilm Canada
David Cronenberg
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by J.G. Ballard
fotografia/cinematography
Peter Suschitzky
montaggio/film editing
Ronald Sanders
musica/music
Howard Shore
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
James Spader (James Ballard), Holly Hunter (Helen Remington), Elias Koteas (Vaughan), Deborah Kara Unger (Catherine Ballard), Rosanna Arquette (Gabrielle)
produzione/production
Alliance Communications Corporation, The Movie Network, Recorded Picture Company, Téléfilm Canada