London Soundtrack Festival

Crash

+ intro by director David Cronenberg and composer Howard Shore

Technology and sexuality meet in head-on collision in David Cronenberg’s controversial adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard’s transgressive 1973 novel.

  • Director

    David Cronenberg

  • With

    James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger

  • Canada / UK 1996

  • 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.

This special screening will be introduced by director David Cronenberg and composer Howard Shore, as part of the London Soundtrack Festival.