Cannes-celed: CRASH
Schedule
Sat May 10 2025 at 09:30 pm to 11:15 pm
UTC-05:00Location
FilmScene (at The Chauncey) | Iowa City, IA
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.
Where is it happening?
FilmScene (at The Chauncey), 404 E College St.,Iowa City, Iowa, United States
