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Brandon CronenbergScenariusz:
Brandon CronenbergZdjęcia:
Karim HussainMuzyka:
E. C. WoodleyObsada:
Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith, Salvatore Antonio, Nicholas Campbell, Josh Holliday, Vincent Thomas, Lara Jean Chorostecki (więcej)Opisy(1)
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate. (Rialto Distribution)
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Watching this when you’re at home fighting the flu is a treat par excellence. Antiviral is an unlikable movie in every way, with an apt satirical theme and sterile form. There is a lot of white, which adds emphasis to the coughed-up blood, injections with herpes viruses and eating of meat created from human cells in a laboratory. Actually, from the cells of admired celebrities. “Celebrities are not people. They’re group hallucinations.” Antiviral could entertain me if it had a sensible 80-minute runtime, but not like this. I otherwise like bizarre debuts by original filmmakers.
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Very sick, very hard to watch, very Cronenberg. The comparisons with David Cronenberg’s early works would apply to Antiviral even if it was made by someone completely unrelated. It has many layers, even though the visual impression is different. And it’s actually the visual impression (the white glitz of the clinic against the nastiness that bubbles here and there) and the perverted atmosphere the main basis for my rating so far. I put it on sometime after midnight and I nodded a couple of times (it’s not exactly packed with action :-D). It needs at least one more viewing, but the film is certainly interesting.
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Brandon Cronenberg does not deny his origins here, and so he presents a rather visceral and stomach-churning body horror which is a scathing satirical comment on contemporary society. Antiviral is based on a great idea - perfect for a short film. The only real problem with this movie is that Cronenberg has selfishly stretched it out to a lengthy 108 minutes.
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