CRASH - Faber

Crash was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for its audacity, daring and originality. Based on J.G. Ballard's novel, Crash is a complex work in which Cronenberg depicts, with shocking beauty a world in which humans align their minds, bodies and sexuality to the technology of cars. Set in a bleak, passionless world of multi-lane freeways, crash presents the story of James Ballard and his wife Catherine, whose search for authentic experience leads them into the sump oil-soaked world of Vaughan, a renegade scientist who seeks sexual release by crashing into cars on the freeway, hoping in this way to achieve a new relationship between flesh and metal, man and machine.