Among the films that make up the Berlinale Classics program, the section of the Berlin film festival dedicated to restored classic cinema, there is also the beautiful film by David Cronenberg based on the novel by William S. Burroughs. Here is the trailer for the 4K restored version of Naked Lunch.
In the program of the 2023 edition of Berlinale Classicsthe section of the Berlin Film Festival dedicated to classic cinema in a restored version, there will be, in addition to Sweet dreams by Nanni Moretti and other films, even the beautiful one Naked lunchthe movie that David Cronenberg drew in 1991 from the novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs and the circumstances surrounding its writing.
With a great protagonist Peter Wellerjoined by Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider and many more, Naked lunch is a hallucinatory and delirious tale steeped in paranoia, in which the visionary Canadian director explodes without brakes. The story – which is a succession of elements and suggestions taken from the novel of the same name and from other works by Burroughs, as well as from episodes that actually happened to the writer – is that of a writer who, after killing his wife, flees to Tangier where he believes he is involved in mysterious plots hatched by terrifying extraterrestrial agents.
This below is iThe official trailer for the 4K restoration of Naked Lunchwhich after the Berlinale will be screened in cinemas in select countries and will be released on home video.
