Viggo Mortensen compares David Cronenberg's Crash to Julia Ducournau's Titane
Viggo Mortensen says film about people finding car crashes erotic is better than film where a woman has sex with a car https://t.co/RU9B3qDI1N pic.twitter.com/ma1ma7vOsr
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Ahead of Cannes Film Festival premiere of David Cronenberg’s newest offering, Crimes Of The Future.
Viggo Mortensen compares Cronenberg’s 1996 film Crash with last year’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane.
“In my opinion, no offense to the director of Titane [Julia Ducournau], but Crash was head and shoulders above that movie, because it wasn’t just about superficial shock value and unconventional imagery. There was a story beneath it, there was true character exploration in Crash, much more than in Titane, I think.”
Crash debuted at Cannes to waves of controversy and booing, but won a Special Jury Award.
The film, starring James Spader, follows a group of people who find automobile crashes erotic.
Titane features an analysis of the nature of a female psychopath while also exploring the limits of the human body, transness, and the concept of found family. So boiling the film down solely to its shock value elements does it an immense disservice.
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