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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Director David Cronenberg is no stranger to disturbing material, with a resume that includes "Videodrome" and "The Fly." Even for Cronenberg, his new movie, "Crimes of the Future," is extreme. In this podcast episode, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano share their harshly negative response to a story in which two performance artists (Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux) have a nightclub routine in which bodily surgeries are performed for the voyeuristic enjoyment of the crowd. This dimly lit and monotonously paced story is so numbing that Marie and Mike strongly recommend you skip it. They also discuss "Cha Cha Real Smooth," whose director, Cooper Raiff, also stars as a young man employed as what could be described as a bar mitzvah motivational dancer. He becomes friends with a single mother and her teen daughter. Although Marie loved this movie and Mike was more lukewarm about it, they agree that it has endearing characters and relationships.