Crimes of the Future

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Directed by

David Cronenberg

Starring (View all)

Ronald Mlodzik
Adrian Tripod

Jon Lidolt

Tania Zolty

Paul Mulholland

Jack Messinger

Iain Ewing

William Haslam

Raymond Woodley
(as Ray Woodley)

Written by

David Cronenberg

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1 year, 8 months ago at Jun 17 23:33

fernando

(MU) MMhhh, Cronenberg exploring his themes and budget (he makes everything, soundless, no dialogues, but voice in off), there's the idea of new organs (reused in the next "Crimes of the future"), the foot fetichism, some shy homoerotism nd more...

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Description: Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new or ... (more)

Release date: 10 August 1984

Tags: Sci-fi (1), Disease (1), Canadian (1), Cosmetics (1), Patient (1), Dermatologist (1)

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“(MU) MMhhh, Cronenberg exploring his themes and budget (he makes everything, soundless, no dialogues, but voice in off), there's the idea of new organs (reused in the next "Crimes of the future"), the foot fetichism, some shy homoerotism nd more...” read more

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"David Cronenberg’s favorite themes were already in place with his second feature, set in a future where a cosmetics-borne sickness has wiped out the adult female population and the remaining men have organized as a pedophile cult. Androgynous hero Adrian Tripod leaves the mysterious institute known as the House of Skin and wanders a vacant modernist landscape, which is worth gazing upon even when the movie’s narrative occasionally fizzles. Although it looks like it was financed with spare ch"