Crash

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  • Friday, Jul 18

  • Saturday, Jul 19

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Crash

Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes—where it won a Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for audacity”—Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing.

A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass—and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard’s future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s.

"It's about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Its matter-of-fact tone and concentration on nuance of character in frank sex scenes renders it moving and involving rather than lurid and gratuitous."
Kim Newman, Empire Magazine

This film is part of the After Hours series.



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