} This section is dedicated to a previous edition of the festival. To get information about the latest edition, please follow this link: HOME
The Naked Lunch
(Naked Lunch)
David Cronenberg
- 1991
- Canada, United Kingdom, Japan
- Drama
- 1h55mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Preview premiere
New 4K master
1953, Bill Lee exterminates insects and, prey to hallucinations after absorbing insecticide, he accidentally kills his wife. He flees to the Interzone where he becomes a writer. His descent into hell is only beginning.
In 1991, David Cronenberg delivered his version of The Naked Feast, William Burroughs’ novel published in 1959, and said to be unadaptable. The Canadian nevertheless met the challenge by emphasizing the hallucinogenic, nightmarish, tortured and autobiographical dimensions of the text. In a fantasy Tangiers where paranoïa is a second skin and where typewriters turn into giant prurient insects, and the character's wanderings become hypnotic and absurd. Rarely has decline been so stylized. Don't hesitate to sit at the table!
Screenings
08/09 • 16h45 • Screen 500
Credits
- With : Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
- Screenplay : David Cronenberg, from the novel by William S. Burroughs
- Photography : Peter Suschitzky
- Editing : Ronald Sanders
- Music by : Ornette Coleman, Howard Shore
- Production : Gabriella Martinelli, Jeremy Thomas
