Movies

April, 1997

Crash (Fine Line) is the movie that either wowed or worried audiences at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Director David Cronenberg, a filmmaker wired for weirdness (Dead Ringer, Naked Lunch), strikes again with this startling adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1973 novel about people sexually excited by car accidents, prosthetic devices and scar tissue. The erotic power of pain and violence is not something every viewer will respond to, despite some provocative performances. Deborah Unger and James...