The whole world is talking about this film - and there is also an Israeli star in it
After years of anticipation, David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future" made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, presenting Lehi Kornowski's first international role.
"The film is a statement about the contemporary era - a era where everything is plastic," she says in an interview with Walla!
Avner Shavit, Cannes
24/05/2022
Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 07:29 Updated: 08:31
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Trailer for the movie "Crimes of the Future" (Cannes Film Festival)
The Cannes Film Festival reached its midpoint yesterday (Monday) with a world premiere of one of its most talked-about films - "Crimes of the Future" by David Cronenberg.
Kronenberg is one of the oldest, most respected and ambitious directors in the world of artistic cinema, and a regular on the Riviera.
"Crimes of the Future" is his first film in almost a decade, and he returns to the realms of horror and fantasy he recently visited in the late 1990s with "Existence."
His new work is also reminiscent of "Crash," his most outrageous film, which came out in the mid-1990s and dealt with the connection between sexual pleasure and car accidents.
In "Crimes of the Future" he deals with the connection between sexual pleasure and surgical operations.
As one of the characters says here, in one of the good lines of dialogue recorded at the festival this year - "Surgery is the new sex".
The film also deals with a variety of other themes, including the connection between suffering and creation and what Kronenberg predicts may be the next stage in human narcissism - an obsession with self-destruction.
It begins with a scene in which a mother strangles her son, and continues with passages in which characters try to genetically program themselves to eat plastic and a variety of graphic and extreme images.
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It still does not have a distributor in Israel.
From "Crimes of the Future" (Photo: Cannes Film Festival)
Cronenberg warned that many spectators would leave the screening after five minutes, and prepared the ground for what had already become a national sport in Cannes: the custom of leaving the hall, demonstratively or not, and the custom of counting the number of people coming out and making headlines like "Prepare the vomiting bags: Get out of the crowd in the middle. "
I will not participate in this game.
"Crimes of the Future" is indeed a very unpleasant film to watch.
It is graphic, extreme and provocative.
No wonder it still has no distribution in many countries, including Israel.
However, we have seen quite a few things that are equally difficult and even more so in recent years, so it is ridiculous to come out with statements.
If Cronenberg revisits here, it's not necessarily on the visual level but more on the theoretical level, and he's educated to use classic inspirations like Kafka to ask new questions about the future, and the direction we are heading in the Instagram era and the climate crisis.
Those international newspapers that prepared the printing presses for headlines about the mass abandonment of the screening also expected reports of contemptuous whistles.
It did not happen: the film splits the audience, but not in an extreme way.
There are many who define it as a masterpiece, and in front of it others who remain quite indifferent.
Personally, I long to watch it one more time and dig and delve deeper into all the ideas that come up in it.
Until then, my sentiment is closer to that of the indifferent group.
The film is also about the cast and actresses - an impressive collection even by Cannes standards.
Among others, it stars Vigo Mortensen, Lia Saidou and Kristen Stewart, along with Israeli actress Lehi Kornowski, in a first (and not last) major international role.
At the summit.
Leahy Kornowski in Cannes (Photo: GettyImages, Pascal La Sartan)
The star, who Cronenberg discovered in the series "Losing Alice", already appears in the first scene of the film, and plays a significant role in the plot.
As an illustration of the importance of her role, she joined the team of stars and the stars and walked with them on the red carpet, making her one of the only Israeli actresses to have done so in the last decade.
"I learned a lot from this experience," Kornowski told me in a short conversation before the screening.
"From working with stars like Mortensen, Saidou and Stuart, I learned that in the end we all want the same thing - we all want our projects to come out the best we can. I learned a lot about professionalism and commitment."
"It was also inspiring to work with a creator like Kronenberg, who does not compromise on his work. It does not matter to him what the audience thinks. That is not what guides him. He is true to his vision, and this courage is something very great I learned from him. Will suit them less.should be very liberal,
Leahy Kornowski on the steps of the red carpet with the film crew (Photo: GettyImages, Gareth Carmol)
Kronenberg began developing the film as early as twenty years ago, but failed to raise funding for it and put the script aside, until the project came to life early in the current decade.
"It's amazing that he started writing the film so many years ago, because today it is more relevant than ever," says Kornowski.
"The film is a statement about the time we live in - a time when everything is plastic, for better or worse."
In addition to your acting career, you are also involved in a charming venture called Jaffa Cinema, an independent cinema that has been operating in Tel Aviv for the past two years, and as they do in Cannes, insists on proving that there is still value on the big screen.
"It's not just the matter of the screen, it's the whole experience. When you sit in a hall and watch a movie with people you do not know, there is a special energy. When you watch a movie in a movie theater, you respect it, you dedicate your time to it and stop your life for it, To sit in a place intended for the display of a cinematic work.
What's the next dream?
"I have a lot of dreams, personal and professional, but I want to breathe as much as possible into what's going on these days and not look for the next thing, but really rejoice in the crazy cinematic celebration we are in."
Leahy Kornowski in Cannes (Photo: GettyImages, Gareth Catermol)
The prettiest
Another film that premiered at the festival's official competition is "Les Amandiers", which turned out to be one of the most beautiful films shown this year in Cannes.
Like many films at the festival, this is also a semi-autobiographical film, and this time written by Valeria Bruni Tedsky.
She returns here to the 1980s, to her days as a young actress and begins in the acting studio of the Amandiers Theater under the direction of the late Patrice Cherou, one of the legendary characters in the history of the French stage world, played here by Louis Garl.
Next to him is Nadia Treskiewicz, who starred two years ago in the Israeli series "Obsessions" and has since become one of the hottest actresses in France.
There is no end, no beginning.
Just passion.
From "Les Amandiers" (Photo: Cannes Film Festival)
This drama follows the young men and women who are admitted to the studio after careful screening, and as befits a French film, jump between their friends' beds and the school bench, with the new threat of AIDS hovering in the background.
Bruni Tadesky captures the personal and professional experiences of the dreamers in a non-stop movement, which creates the feeling as if life has no end and no beginning in the first place.
All there is here is an endless passion - for love, for the stage, for freedom.
Whether you grew up in the 1980s or not, this movie will make you miss them.
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