Kristen Stewart and David Cronenberg on “Crimes of the future” and the reinvention of sex and sexuality – Cannes Studio

When his team arrived in Cannes with Deadline Studio, also the director of the coveted competition crimes of the future He tried to find words to describe the surreal story of artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who voluntarily grows mutated organs on his body so fellow surgeon Caprice (Lea Seidu) can tattoo and catalog them for posterity.

“This is a novel about the art of acting that takes place in an alternate world,” said Kronenberg. “I don’t know, it will actually help anyone understand the film, but it’s a semi-accurate description nonetheless.”

Kristin Stewart, who plays a rogue agent who works for the National Registry of Government Agencies, sees Mortensen as the director, a monk-like figure who leads an ascetic life in the service of his strange project, even if it causes him physical discomfort. . “I absolutely believe David believes in art as a religion,” said Stewart, “and he’s super-represented in the film. He is truly contagious. I think there is a limit to the body that turns it on and you can feel it too. I don’t want to ruin a movie, not that it’s easy to break down, but the final moment where change occurs and he succumbs to the changing world he lives in, and his beautiful, kind face disappears. . I think for him, even though the movie is horrible and bloody, it’s so beautiful and so respectful of art, spirituality, humanity, God, religion, whatever you want to call it. It’s like a secular religion “.

As it turns out, Stewart’s favorite film is Cronenberg’s scandalous 1996 Cannes record. Accidenthow crimes of the futureDraw a blurred line between sex and violence. “I like deviant art”, she admired her. “I like fringe and deviant sex stories where not everyone has the same sex. Everyone experiences their bodies differently, and finding eroticism in topics that aren’t usually treated this way will make you realize that your first instinct may not be the only one. I just think David really feels the walls of his body. He’s really trying to expel himself. “

The theme song of the film is inserted in the phrase “Surgery is the new sex”, a possibility that according to Cronenberg is not far off. “I think there is already a lot on the internet, etc. “About alternative forms of sex and sex that don’t involve intercourse,” he said, “and that’s the search for another kind of eroticism that can be exotic or fictional. People now have fetishes you can’t imagine, it’s not a classic if I may say so. It’s not a classic shoe fetish or anything. People are inventing new fetishes that may have something to do with new media, social networks. Even the weird eroticism of TikTok, what is it? Is this porn? And nobody knows, so I think we’re constantly making up sex and sexuality. It has never been easier for humans. [Sex] It has always had elements of politics, culture, economics and the environment. So, in short, I think there will be new forms of sexuality that will establish themselves in the future. “

Watch the video above to learn more about Kronenberg, Stuart, Mortensen and Seidu.

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