Antiviral Antiviral

Overview

Credits non contractual

  • Awards:

    • Antiviral is a biting satire of celebrity culture. Smart, engaging and scary.

  • Details:

    • 108 min - 'Crime / Investigation / Thriller' -
      'Sci-Fi' - English - 2012
    • Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD

  • Directed by:

    • Brandon Cronenberg

  • Cast:

    • Caleb Landry Jones (Contraband, X-Men: First Class, The Last Exorcism), Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis, The Moth Diaries, A Dangerous Method),
    • Malcolm McDowell (The Artist, Halloween I&II, A Clockwork Orange), Douglas Smith (Percy Jackson : Sea of Monsters, Big Love)

  • Produced by:

    • Rhombus Media

  • Delivery:

    • Winter 2012

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  • Photos

  • Synopsis

    Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion – for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
    Brandon Cronenberg surrounds himself with the creative team behind Cosmopolis & Hobo with a Shotgun, for this fresh blood transplant from the new wave of Canadian cinema

  • Press

    “Caleb Landry Jones has the eyes of Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange” On Screen

    “The locations     (…) are reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nes” On Screen

    “Impressive performance from Landry Jones” Screen International

    “Intriguing.Well made” The Guardian

    "“Antiviral is a stunningly smart debut from Brandon Cronenberg" Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films

    “It's a handsome film, shot with a clinical reserve” HitFix

    “Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction” Twitch Film

    "ANTIVIRAL is the work of a budding visionary, whose best work, I expect, is yet to come. But for the time being, his current work is full of inventive and effective artistry". Capone, AICN

    "Cronenberg's visual palette is exceptional". Capone, AICN

    "One of the more ambitious feature film debuts" Capone, AICN

  • Awards

    Toronto Film Festival (2012):
    Best Canadian First Feature Film

    Cannes Film Festival     (2012):
    Official selection "Un Certain Regard"

    Bordeaux Independent Film Festival     (2012):
    Student Award

    Sitges IFF     (2012):
    Citizen Kane Award for Best Newcomer Director and the Carnet Jove Jury Award for Best Motion Picture

    Best Newcomer Award is given by the Official Fantastic Jury and the other award is from a young critic's jury.