Crimes of the Future

Dir. David Cronenberg, English, 1970

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Wed 29 July 2009 // 19:30 / Cinema

We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films.

Cronenberg’s icy first featurettes show a young director already sure of his fecund thematic territory, investigating the convergence of fringe medicine and outlaw sexuality in Stereo (1969), wherein subjects at a sex-research institute undergo brain surgery to acquire telepathic powers, and Crimes Of The Future (1970), which arranges a bizarre interface of dermatology and paedophilia.