Lennon-McCartney. Astaire-Rogers. Carson-McMahon. If you ask the D-Eye
Guy, Cronenberg-Suschitzky should go down among the great
collaborations in entertainment history. Working together since their
first masterpiece, Dead Ringers, the director and
the DP have created some profoundly unnerving tableaux, including that
Burroughs adaptation and that car-porn movie. So it's a relief to see
that their first DI together, done at E-Film, still looks very much
like a David Cronenberg movie ‘ it's clean and efficient and brings out
the details of a forthright visual approach that can make it hard to
get a bead on the filmmaker's intentions. Is it a comedy? A horror
movie? Only in the self-consciously violent third act, when everything
on screen turns a greenish-yellow that's a close match for the scotch
in William Hurt's glass, does the team opt for overt stylization. We'll
played.