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Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection

03/24/2023

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0hr 4min

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Horror

STORY

Cronenberg's speculative historical work draws inspiration from the anatomical waxworks at the La Specola museum in Florence, Italy. These wax models, traditionally used for medical demonstrations, are given a new perspective in the film. Cronenberg's work reveals the vibrant and surprising aspects of these female wax corpses, which were previously seen as static and serious. As David Cronenberg explains: “The Specola wax figures were created as a teaching tool, capable of revealing the mysteries of the human body to those who could not access … real cadavers held in universities and hospitals. In their attempt to create whole, partially dissected figures, whose body language and facial expression did not show suffering or agony … the sculptors ended up producing living characters apparently overcome by ecstasy. It was this surprising stylistic choice that captured my imagination: what if it was the dissection itself that induced that tension, that almost religious rapture?”

CAST & CREW

    Cast

    Director

  • David Cronenberg

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Fondazione Prada

    Production Countries

  • Italy

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

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