Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection

Original title: Quattro donne mai amate, alla deriva su un mare senza scopo, sperimentano l'estasi della dissezione

Release date: Friday, 24th March 2023

Adult: No

Genres: Horror

Duration: 0h 4min
Popularity: 0.339
Rate: 5 / 1 votes
Overview: Cronenberg's speculative historical work draws inspiration from the anatomical waxworks at the La Specola museum in Florence, Italy. These wax models, traditionally used for medical demonstrations, are given a new perspective in the film. Cronenberg's work reveals the vibrant and surprising aspects of these female wax corpses, which were previously seen as static and serious. As David Cronenberg explains: “The Specola wax figures were created as a teaching tool, capable of revealing the mysteries of the human body to those who could not access … real cadavers held in universities and hospitals. In their attempt to create whole, partially dissected figures, whose body language and facial expression did not show suffering or agony … the sculptors ended up producing living characters apparently overcome by ecstasy. It was this surprising stylistic choice that captured my imagination: what if it was the dissection itself that induced that tension, that almost religious rapture?”