Canadian David Cronenberg, creator of the most disturbing, provocative and organic films in cinema of the last 50 years, assures that his intention is not so much to push the public to exceed their limits, but rather to push themselves. And he says it about his last tape, crimes of the future with Viggo Mortensen and that can be seen on Movistar +.

Born in Toronto in 1943, he has already gone down in cinematic history as the creator of “biological horror”, a different and revolutionary language, very organic, a style that has been incorporated by followers like the brilliant filmmaker Frenchwoman Julia Ducornau, author of titanium.

“I’m satisfied when people tell me I’m a model or an inspiration, but that’s not why I make films. The fact that there are new directors like Ducornau confirms to me that I have a new family who are not my contemporaries, but I consider them to be contemporaries in their intensity or their style,” he admits.

The director of crash (1996) and Existence (1999) recalls that he began his career as a writer because his father was one, but that the seventh art “kidnapped” him. Of course, he assures that, if ever he made a scenario “too extreme”, which could not be shot, he would automatically make a novel of it. So far, that is not the case.

Always interested in technology (all his films include the relationship between man and machine), he maintains that today, with a good mobile phone, it is possible to make a feature film. In fact, it challenges viewers to find footage of crimes of the future rolled that way.

As we can see, despite his age, he continues to innovate and rely on the most revolutionary techniques. And so says someone who has been wearing hearing aids for a long time and recently had cataract surgery. “I do not have the lenses with which I have seen for the past 75 years. Today I have all the technology, so I am bionic, I am the future”, he comments with humor.

According to him, the work he does is not “prophetic”. “It’s not my job, I don’t try to predict what will happen nor am I a politician to suggest how to fix it. But, as an artist, I have antennas that make me more sensitive. I just accidentally predicted the future, but I’m not trying to warn people about anything.”

In any case, in his last very dense feature film, he often comes across “disturbing, disturbing things”. They are the ones who feed a filmography of about fifty titles, among which are masterpieces such as Fly (1986) or eastern promises (2007), where he has already worked with actor Viggo Mortensen, a kind of alter ego of the director, who plays in the disturbing crimes of the future.

In it, the American actor living in Spain is Saul Tenser, an artist who uses his body as raw material for his works. Also his viscera, which he managed to tattoo. Sometimes he feels pain, a feeling forgotten by his contemporaries, fascinated by the works of body creators like him. Everything changes when a mysterious group wants to take advantage of Saul’s fame to reveal to the world the next stage of human evolution.

The plot of this film, in which Kristen Stewart, famous for Duskit’s surreal, the photography claustrophobic, the music haunting… Everything house brandthe mark of a genius who won the Donostia Prize at the last San Sebastián Film Festival for his vast career.

Besides the art, which Cronenberg sees as having somewhat “a criminal essence, much like the artists”, the film is “a dystopia in which the human needs to mutate in order to feed on the waste they produce themselves. same “. .

The filmmaker does not hesitate to analyze the news: “I worry about the success we may have in repairing the harm we have caused in the world, but as long as we want to change it, I think that we will do something. . The problem is that we have crazy things like the war in Ukraine, apart from climate change. I don’t have an answer as to whether we’ll be successful, but I’m not optimistic.