Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux And Kristen Stewart Star In David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Trailer

Opening in theaters on June 3rd is David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE.

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoesnew transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, whichis when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission –to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

In an interview for his film, Cronenberg says of his film:

“I’d say Crimes of the Future is about the crimes committed by the human body against itself, and I know that that’s kind of mysterious and kind of confusing but that’s my answer to that question. “

What compels you to look at things that scare a lot of people especially now?

“I think there are a lot of cases that one can refer to of people embracing their disease, a disease they have, a disability that they have, a mutation that they have, it’s part of a human desire to make something thing good out of whatever the human condition offers, and so I think Saul Tenser is just a sort of an exaggerated, extreme version of that. He has found himself producing new organs in his body or things that would be considered tumors. In this case they seem to have an organization that a tumor does not have. A tumor is really a kind of random collection of cells that grow uncontrollably, they do disrupt all kinds of things in the human body but to no apparent purpose, and they’re basically just destructive.”

What was it like working with your old friend Viggo? (He has worked with Cronenberg four times)

“Well Viggo and I, we have a long term relationship and we’re also friends. We know each other very well and we’ve spent a lot of time together aside from movie making. So, at the same time we’re both perfectionists up to a point and when it comes to work we’re working as an actor-director relationship, but we do have a second hand. We do have a sort of a telepathic kind of understanding of each other because we’ve worked together so many times. I mean, he is a director himself, he’s a screenwriter, a musician, a poet, a publisher and so he approaches movie making that way. In other words, he’s not shy about commenting on the script even if it’s a scene that he, as his character is not in, and that’s unusual, not too many actors do that.”