Naked Lunch, an auteur film

With Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg created a bold and transgressive cinematic experience like no other.

Based on William S. Burroughs' complex novel, Cronenberg embraced surrealism and visceral imagery to shocking effect.

With only Cronenberg's singular vision, little traditional narrative logic and a cast of courageous, fully committed performers,

Naked Lunch plunges the viewer into a hypnotic, hypersensory fever dream that demands total submission to its abstract puzzles and searing poetry.

Scenes fragment and collide with a nightmarish, eerie rhythm reminiscent of the auteur's infamous cut-up technique, requiring multiple viewings to unravel the role of each fragment in Cronenberg's distinctive vision of reality, addiction and art.

Impossible to look away from, but never quite grasp, the cumulative impact of The Naked Lunch's visual depth and fearless willingness to stand on the edge of pleasure and pain is unforgettable.

A true work of auteur cinema that will divide all but the most open-minded aesthetes. Cronenberg gives his best in this modern masterpiece that admits no concessions for any viewer. Not for the faint of heart, but tremendously rewarding for the free-thinker.

In short: a film that must be lived to be believed. Cronenberg has succeeded in bringing Burroughs' unfilmable text to astonishing, nightmarish life.