Making of the dystopian film, "Crimes of the Future"

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It is a dystopian world ...  Viggo Mortensen plays a surgery-obsessed artist who removes human organs in front of an audience.   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.

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