A rumbling, screeching anthem to the contradictory and captivating nature of humanity. Screening as part of the All Tomorrow’s Scars. Directed by David Cronenberg film programme.
Crash
- Date:
- from 10 Jul 2026, 19:00
- Age restrictions
- 18+
1996, David Cronenberg
Canada–United Kingdom–United States
97 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter
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After a random car accident, frustrated filmmaker James Ballard finds himself in a secret society of fanatics obsessed with famous car crashes: they live and breathe them, deconstructing them in words only to reconstruct them in reality and get a thrill. But it is precisely among these people, possessed by both Eros and Thanatos, that Ballard and his wife Catherine find a cure for boredom.
Shot from Crash, 1996
Cronenberg’s movies develop tension through an internal conflict between the visceral and the clinical; this one tips all the way into the former, creating an alienating quasi-thriller that isn’t quite like any other movie around.
— Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Crash became a cult classic immediately after its highly controversial premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Cronenberg escalates the degree of human obsession to such an extent that no metal can withstand it. Cars are merely unwitting companions on humanity’s journey towards a fuller understanding of its own paradoxical nature. And towards a more conscious marriage, of course.
