Naked Lunch

A film season featuring movies related to writers and literary themes.

The film is a paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who by accident kills his wife with a gunshot. His wife’s typing machine transforms into a cockroach that in some way gets involved in a mysterious plot in the north-African port of Interzone. Although it is bleak and extravagant as its prose, the film isn’t a direct adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel, but a blend of biography, an interpretation of the creative process on drugs, and elements from his work.

DIRECTOR:

David Cronenberg.

CAST:

Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Nicholas Campbell, Monique Mercure, Michael Zelniker, Joseph Scorsiani, Robert A. Silverman, Mathilda May.