Antiviral

Brandon Cronenberg | Canada 2012 | 108min. | Print Source: IFC

Brandon Cronenberg's striking body-horror debut is a prescient and chilling vision of our cultural obsession with celebrity. In a dystopian future world, Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) works at the Lucas Clinic, which has an unusual and highly profitable line of business: deliberately infecting paying customers with diseases harvested from top celebrities, thus providing a "biological communion" between stars and fans. Though his work… Show more environment is tightly monitored, Syd manages to sneak viruses out of the office for his lucrative sideline supplying the black-market disease trade. Gruesomely absurd and incisive, Antiviral is a visceral satire on our contemporary society of the spectacle. (Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo, TIFF)

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