1 film at the box office, but we'll settle for it being a great film anyway. We'd love to live in a world where 'surgery is the new sex' could have been a phrase from the No. The broader critical response suggests his return to the body horror genre mostly hit the mark, but that's a hard sell for those who aren't already into it.

The Canadian auteur has always had his finger on (and ahead of) the pulse of societal concerns about technology, sexuality, and identity, but his films don't often land at the box office. As similar mutations manifest in the populace, including a young boy who can digest plastics, a governmental agency steps in to control humanity's new trajectory. Saul's body is host to strange new organs, which the pair surgically remove in erotic, disturbingly intimate performances for the public.

'Crimes' follows performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner, Caprice (Léa Seydoux), as they navigate a near-future world where humanity has conquered pain and disease.

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