NAKED LUNCH

Much like Luca Guadagnino’s 2024 film Queer, Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch not so much a cinematic adaptation of Burrough’s writing, but instead a highly original film based on the art and biography of the legendary counterculture figure.

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and his dead-eyed wife, Joan (Judy Davis), like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing

David Cronenberg, 1991, 115′, English with Swedish subtitles, DCP
Doors open 30 min before showtime.
Tickets 100-120 online or the door
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