“Exterminate all rational thought.” Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs’ hallucinatory, “unfilmable” novel, is finally realized onscreen by director David Cronenberg.
Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges unto the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs’ novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation into the mysteries of the writing process.
The film will be introduced by Josef Rauvolf, translator of W. Burroughs‘ work.
In English, IMDB rating: 7.1, 115 mins.
