Viggo Mortensen sees love in 'Future Crimes'

• Viggo Mortensen is directed by David Cronenberg for the fourth time in "The Crimes of the Future".

• Her character experiences a very strange passion there with an artist played by Léa Seydoux in a magnificent but divisive film.

Between Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg, it's a story that lasts.

A history of violence as indicated by the title of their first film with each other,

(2005).

A story that then continued with

(2007) and

(2011), before the duo met again in Cannes for

, a new example of the perfect harmony between the director and actor where Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart also find their place.

A different love story

"This film is a different love story, but a beautiful love story between the character of Léa Seydoux and mine", explains Viggo Mortensen to

.

The couple have replaced sex with performance art where she tattoos the organs he makes in her body.

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“There have been other films that have done weird things with sexuality but not always with the depth that David Cronenberg puts into it.

He does not show images only to shock but also to provoke discussion.

This is obviously the case for this divisive and sensual film where the actor is, once again, remarkable in a role where he looks like two drops of water to the director.

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