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FOUR UNLOVED WOMEN, ADRIFT ON A PURPOSELESS SEA, EXPERIENCE THE ECSTASY OF DISSECTION

Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada, Italy, 2023
Short, Horror
  • 44 minutes

Synopsis

Long live the new flesh. Surgery is the new sex. These Cronenbergian epigrams come together in a tableau that reimagines the ecstasy and eroticism of Renaissance sculpture for the future. Or is it already the present?

Synopsis

Long live the new flesh. Surgery is the new sex. These Cronenbergian epigrams come together in a tableau that reimagines the ecstasy and eroticism of Renaissance sculpture for the future. Or is it already the present?

Our take

No stranger to the sensual and medical contours of the body, horror icon David Cronenberg turns to 18th-century wax cadavers as his new muses for this poetic short. Sonically caressed by a chorus of pleasurable sighs, these anatomical Venuses are both alluring and uncanny in their voluptuousness.