Cronenberg on bodies, death and the future of movies
David Cronenberg is sitting on a balcony when a squawking seagull flies overhead. “Full of plastic, that bird,” Cronenberg says, smiling. The 79-year-old Canadian auteur has long been fascinated by what’s in our bodies and what we put in them. His latest film, Crimes of the Future, which opens on Aug. 5 in Taiwan’s theaters, stems partly from his interest in the ubiquity of microplastics. Cronenberg, who sat for a recent interview at the Cannes Film Festival where Crimes of the Future was premiering, first wrote the film’s script in 1998. Sensing it had grown only more relevant, Cron...
Source: taipeitimes.com