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Crimes of the Future

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1h 2m

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1970 • Canada
Starring Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty

In this early feature from David Cronenberg, a dermatologist named Adrian Tripod searches for his missing mentor, Antoine Rouge, in the wake of a plague caused by cosmetics that has wiped out all sexually mature women. Shot silently and set to voice-over, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE provides an early glimpse of the director’s obsessions with the human body and technology.

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