‘The US is completely insane’: David Cronenberg on Roe v Wade at Cannes film festival

The Canadian director made the comments at a press conference for his latest body horror film Crimes of the Future

David Cronenberg, director of Crash, The Naked Lunch and A History of Violence, has said that the US is completely insane".

Speaking to the press at the Cannes film festival premiere of his new film Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg referred specifically to attempts to overturn Roe v Wade. In Canada ... we think everyone in the US is completely insane. I think the US has gone completely bananas, and I can't believe what the elected officials are saying, not just about Roe v Wade, so it is strange times."