Screening

Film: Crash – Screening + intro by David Cronenberg & Howard Shore

Sat 22 Mar, 10:00 am BFI IMAX Buy Tickets

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


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 screening will be introduced by director David Cronenberg and composer Howard Shore

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1996 Canada

Directed by
David Cronenberg

Produced by
David Cronenberg

Written by
David Cronenberg

Music by
Howard Shore

Featuring
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger

Running time
98 minutes