Crimes of the Future (1970)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

David Cronenberg

Writer:

David Cronenberg (writer)

Release Date:

10 August 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A journalist, intriguingly named Adrian Tripod, investigates the deaths of nearly all adult women on Earth...

Plot Keywords:

Satire | Independent Film

Cast

Ronald Mlodzik	...	Adrian Tripod
Jon Lidolt
Tania Zolty
Jack Messinger
Paul Mulholland
William Haslam
Willem Poolman		(as William Poolman)
Stefen Czernecki
Raymond Woodley		(as Ray Woodley)
Kaspars Dzeguze
Iain Ewing
Brian Linehan
Leland Richard
Norman Snider
Stephen Zeifman

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:12 (2006) | Finland:K-18 (2006) (self applied) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Emergent Films Ltd.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (#1.10)" (1999)

hypnotic

This is an unusual filmic experience, hypnotic, trance-like, not totally rewarding but still fascinating. On the soundtrack you can only hear the narrator, strange noises (sounds of sea-creatures) and for some stretches, total silence. Signs of Cronenbergs weird imagination is present throughout the narrative. I especially liked the quite extraordinary concept of "creative cancer".The sterile, modernistic architecture lends the movie a strangely desolate, surreal tone and sets, at least my, imagination in motion. It´s like stepping into another reality, something Cronenberg has continued to achieve in the best of his subsequent movies. It´s an experimental film, but it succeeds in drawing the viewer into the picture, not solely with its narrative, but with its images and composition. In fact, it´s not unlike what Kubrick did, in much larger scope of course, with 2001. Recommended for Cronenberg fans, and those of you who aren´t afraid of something different.