Crash

“As certain to cause arguments in the lobby as any film out there. Ice-cold, Brechtian, camp as hell, gorgeous in a profoundly inhuman way. The desire to connect taken to its bleakest point and left on the side of the motorway to die.” – Emerald Fennell

  • Director

    David Cronenberg

  • With

    James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger

  • Canada / UK 1996. 100min

  • Digital 2K

  • Certificate

    18

James Spader stars as James Ballard, a film producer whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard’s wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union. Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for originality, daring and audacity, Crash remains a subversive and confrontational piece of cinema.