NC-17 ‘Infinity Pool’ at Sundance shocks with orgies, executions, money shot
The Sundance Film Festival’s depraved talker this year is “Infinity Pool” by director Brandon Cronenberg.&💫nbsp;
Although reports from Sunday night’s premiere screening — approprಌiately in ♒the midnight program — said , there were ample bodily fluids.
ꦫIn one scene, Alexander Skarsgård’s character ejaculates, with his member in full view of the camera. (This is likely a special effect.)
Another key🦄 part of the plot is a slew of slayings — in the form of bloody executions. Doubling down on the gore, the film’s tagline is “Only through blood can you release your past♍.”
And there a🐠re demented, hallucinogenic, graphic orgies.
The film by Cronenberg, son of “Crimes of the Future” director David Cronenberg, is set at a forei🃏gn resort where if a guest wanders off the heavily protected grounds, they will discover hedonism and untold violence — mostly perpetrated by other internati🐷onal visitors.
Collider’s review called it “ ‘”
Thos🐷e checking in include Skarsgård and actress Mia Goth from “Pearl.”
The fictional Eastern European-looking country has a zero-tole🗹rance policy for crime, and the penalty is death. But, adding a science-fiction element, well-heeled tourists can be cloned and watch their double be executeꦦd instead.
When asked at a post-screening Q&A what the most memo🥂rable part about filming the messed-up movie was, Skarsgård, 46, replied, “Fighting a naked version of myself to the death and then being breastfed by Mia … that’s not something you get to do very often as an actor.”
That’s not quite “CODA,” the Sundance heart-warmer that won the Best Picture Oscar last year.
But the film follows suit with the other work of Cronenberg, 43, such as 2012’s “Antiviral,” about a clinic thไat allows average customers to have celebrities’ viruses injected into them to feel more connected to the stars.
The version♏ of “Infinity Pool” shown at freewheeling Sundan💞ce Sunday night is rated NC-17, but when Cronenberg’s film is released nationwide on Jan. 27 it will be a tamer R.