Naked Lunch (1991)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

David Cronenberg

Escritores:

William S. Burroughs (novel)
David Cronenberg (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 marzo 1992 (France)

Género:

Biografía | Crimen | Drama | Fantasía | Misterio

Frase comercial:

David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs invite you to lunch.

Plot:

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

Plot Keywords:

Bug | Writer | Writing | Exterminator | Bizarre

Premios:

13 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Weird...

Reparto

Peter Weller	...	Bill Lee
Judy Davis	...	Joan Frost / Joan Lee
Ian Holm	...	Tom Frost
Julian Sands	...	Yves Cloquet
Roy Scheider	...	Dr. Benway
Monique Mercure	...	Fadela
Nicholas Campbell	...	Hank
Michael Zelniker	...	Martin
Robert A. Silverman	...	Hans
Joseph Scoren	...	Kiki (as Joseph Scorsiani)
Peter Boretski	...	Creature Voices / Exterminator #2
Yuval Daniel	...	Hafid
John Friesen	...	Hauser
Sean McCann	...	O'Brien
Howard Jerome	...	A.J. Cohen

También conocida como:

David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (USA) (trailer title)
Le festin nu (Canada: French title)
Almuerzo desnudo (Argentina) [es]
El almuerzo desnudo (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for heavy drug content, bizarre eroticism, and language.

Duración:

115 min

País:

Canada | UK | Japan

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

New Zealand:R13 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Brazil:16 | Italy:VM18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:III | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 | UK:18 | USA:R | Portugal:M/16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Compañía:

Film Trustees Ltd.

Trivialidades:

The character name William Lee is the pseudonym William S. Burroughs used when he wrote his first novel, "Junky". One memorable segment from the original novel, "The Talking Asshole," is recited almost verbatim in the film. Early in the movie, a character utters the mangled phrase "No glot, C'lom Fliday" which is the final line of the novel.

Citas:

Bill Lee: America is not a young land. It is old and dirty, evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians, the evil is there, waiting.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in La science des rêves (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

Bugpowder

Weird...

I find it difficult to comment this movie, honestly. Without revealing anything, that is. This applies to comments only,as the evaluation would mostobviously be 10/10. You see, having read in one of the other comments here, that the movie contained an implication on heroin addiction, I expected to find something similar to "Requiem to a Dream" - a movie that leaves one single message and a bouquet of associated feelings in a viewer, with the message being DRUGS ARE BAD, in big friendly letters. I was wrong.

I guess those who enjoy psychedelic music will understand what I want to say better - this movie has a high. Not literally of course, but it does leave you in a different world, with lots of ideas, without any definite beginning or end. It is very, very weird, in the most positive, awesome meaning of the word. Definitely not another conformist movie with a moralistic message behind it. Which is a good thing, really, because we don't get a lot of that nowadays, and 1991 isn't that far away....

The only thing about it is that you either love it or hate it. Nothing in between.

I find it quite impossible to add anything without revealing the plot. Therefore the only thing I'm going to say is: watch it! Not the best movie in the world, but most certainly the strangest one, at least from my point of view.