The director predicted walkouts within the first five minutes but the premiere elicited a seven-minute ovation.
Only one person ended up walking out for what turned out to be a bathroom break.
It’s a premise ripe for repulsing viewers and Cronenberg is absolutely fine with that.
Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in ‘Crimes of the Future’.NEON
“I do expect walkouts in Cannes, and that’s a very special thing,” Cronenberg toldDeadline.
So, you hear clack, clack, clack.
Whether they’ll be outraged the way they were withCrash, I somehow don’t think so.
However, I have no idea really what’s going to happen."
Crash, Cronenberg’s ode to deadly auto erotica, famously led to walkouts at the 1996 festival.
Cronenberg was, if not surprised, at least touched by the raucous reaction.
“I’m speechless really,” the director said.
I’m very touched by your response.
I hope you’re not kidding.
I hope you mean it.
I’ll be texting you all to see that you really meant it.
It really helps."
Additional reporting by Carita Rizzo
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