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Stereo (1969)

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The first film by director David Cronenberg, the black and white, hour-long feature Stereo is more self-consciously avant-garde, and less visceral, than his later work. Nevertheless, many of the usual Cronenberg concerns are present: a futuristic setting, bizarre scientific experimentation, and an obsessive exploration of perverse forms of sexuality. Stereo borrows the structure of an educational film, masquerading as a documentary record of an experiment performed by The Canadian Academy for

Unrated, 1 hr. 3 min.

Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: David Cronenberg

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Critic Reviews for Stereo

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...doors that won't open, enigmatic card games, long empty corridors and sex on an examination table make it all quite old fashioned, and the images are as formless as scrambled eggs.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Nora Sayre

New York Times

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Clinical, sinuous, jagged

April 2, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

... essential to Cronenberg fans, (a) dispassionate portraitsof fictional experiments in the mutation of mankind in the near future.

May 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Parallax View

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Sean Axmaker

Parallax View

Though it gave me a few guarded chuckles it was hardly worth the effort sitting through such a tedious affair.

February 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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Difficult viewing, although there are some intriguing nuggets buried within

March 18, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Shane Burridge

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This, as well as Crimes Of The Future, are interesting in concept and are executed well... but end up being boring. There's not much else to say except that these ideas just don't work so well on film. It'd be hard to make them work on any medium, actually. I do applaud Cronenberg's creative approach, though. Both

August 23, 2011

Austen Rudnick

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Call this one an interesting failure. "Stereo"'s minimalism is compelling -- the film is black and white, and entirely silent (not even music) except for intermittent narration by a variety of speakers. The story involves a scientific study which induces telepathic bonds between a small number of subjects. Sexuality

October 30, 2009

Eric Broome

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