Cannes 2022: 10 Films We Expect To See

David Cronenberg's sixth decade of filmmaking opens with his first film in eight years, after Maps To The Stars, which was also his last appearance at the Cannes Film Festival.

Picking up on the current horror trend of naming a new film exactly the same as a predecessor from the previous century (looking at you, Scream, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw), Cronenberg's new Crimes Of The Future has the same title as his second feature, which was a low-budget production shot without sound back in 1970, but this new film features a script penned in the decades since.

Crimes signals the director's return to body horror after a long, drama-infused absence, promising a near-future story about semi-synthetic trans-humans whose accelerated evolution has bolstered the limits of performance art, allowing them to remove supplementary, fast-growing organs as a live theatre spectacle. Though not an awful lot is known about the film, filming wrapped in Greece during autumn 2021, and it boasts an all-star cast list including long-time collaborator Viggo Mortensen, and Cannes regulars Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.

David and son Brandon both screened films at Cannes 2012 (Cosmopolis and Antiviral, respectively), marking the first time in the festival's history a father and son had shown films together, and now, a decade later, we may be set to see history repeat itself.