OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE..
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NEWSWEEK: The critics have been calling this your most subtle psychological movie to date, and the least dependent on effects. Does this reflect a new direction for you?
David Cronenberg: It’s cyclical. The same thing happened when I did “The Dead Zone.” Then “Dead Ringers,” then “M. Butterfly” as well. For me creatively it all feels like the same because I personally am not obsessed with special effects at all. I mean, it’s all artifice anyway, whether it’s the lighting or the costuming or the makeup. We are after all dressing up in funny clothes, pretending we’re someone else. There’s an element of play involved and even us hardened pros are very aware of that.

THE FILM FOLLOWS Dennis Cleg (Ralph Fiennes), nicknamed Spider by his mother for his fondness of webs, as he shuffles around his old stomping grounds, taking notes. While he struggles to reconstruct the details of a chilling murder that he may or may not have witnessed as a kid, memories of his mum become confused with those of a neighborhood harlot—both of whom are played by Miranda Richardson.

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