Film Screening: Crash (David Cronenberg • 1996 • R18)

Join Canterbury Film Society for our final screening of 2023 with David Cronenberg’s cult classic: Crash (1996 • 100 mins • Canada • R18)

“For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted JG Ballard’s future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass – and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes – where it won a Special Jury Prize ‘for originality, for daring, and for audacity’ – Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing.” — Criterion

Please note that this film is rated R18. Check out the trailer: David Cronenberg’s Crash - YouTube

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - so go to [www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz ](https://www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz/)to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40) and then join/pay online. Or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before 7.20pm. Film starts at 7.30pm.

The Film Society is a sociable group of film-lovers of all ages and we regularly welcome new members. Doors open at 7.00pm and you can mingle in the foyer (home baked treats and drinks available - please bring cash).

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