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Crimes of the Future is an early (1970) film written, shot, edited and directed by the Canadian director David Cronenberg. Like his earlier Stereo
, it lasts about an hour and stars Ronald Mlodzik. Also like Stereo, it was shot silent, with a commentary added later. The commentary is spoken by the character Adrian Tripod.

Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Mlodzik), who is searching for his mentor, the dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminised world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group which is holding a five-year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge.

Kim Newman, in his 1988 book Nightmare Movies, has described Crimes of the Future as being "more fun to read about in synopsis than to watch", and as proving, along with Stereo, that "it's possible to be boring and interesting at the same time."

Category:Films directed by David Cronenberg Category:Independent films

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