Eight years after “Maps to the Stars,” David Cronenberg is coming back to the Cannes Film Festival with what looks to be a big bang. Weaving together equal parts body horror and dystopi…
I liked this and would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes Cronenberg but it's essentially a victory lap of all his previous obsessions and themes.
I knew he would sneak in a
beauty contest for the insides of the body
- the man is obsessed with this !
I think the pacing is a bit uneven and there's a hell of a lot of exposition at some point which drags the whole thing down a bit but A+ for atmosphere, up there with his best works in that regard. He's still got it.
Not the biggest fan of Cronenberg and this was no exception. It felt like they could have gone further with the graphic surgery but it was pretty tame. The 'Surgery is the new sex' line was rather funny though.