Viggo Mortensen Lives In A Giant Womb In The First Teaser For Crimes Of The Future
The disturbing first teaser for David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future has been released by Neon. The film, which premieres next month at the Cannes Film Festival, stars Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, and Kirsten Stewart.
The trailer for Crimes of the Future opens with Mortensen as he's revealed to be encased in some kind of giant womb. He's overlooked by his partner, played by Seydoux, along with a captivated audience of onlookers. An ominous voice speaks over the trailer, repeatedly saying, «It is time to start seeing, it is time to start speaking, it is time to listen.»
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The rest of the short teaser doesn't reveal too much about the film, but it features plenty of disturbing imagery, such as Stewart's character prodding into someone's abdomen with a futuristic surgical device and Mortensen sitting in what can only be described as an exoskeleton chair. The official description for Crimes of the Future reads, «As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner, Caprice (Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Mortensen), a celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.»
Crimes of the Future will be Cronenberg's first film in eight years. His last film was 2014's Maps to the Stars,which starred actress Julianne Moore as a washed-up actress in a role that won her the
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