Cannes-celedFrom booed at Cannes to reappraised masterpieces and cult classics
"To say this movie is sick is too facile. Let's just say it's perverse. Crash is a grotesque film filled with vacuous characters and a destitute theme."—John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis
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Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in director David Cronenberg's (Videodrome) controversial adaptation of J.G. Ballard's hugely transgressive 1973 novel. James Ballard (James Spader) is a film producer whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard's wife Catherine, are drawn into an underground world of car-crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan. Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union. Prompting boos and walkouts at its premiere at Cannes, the film nevertheless took home a Special Jury Prize for originality, daring and audacity and would go on to have campaigns to ban it in countries around the world.
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