We learned earlier this summer that David Cronenberg‘s Crash is finally getting a Blu-ray release (over in Germany), and today brings word that the NC-17 version of the controversial erotic thriller has been restored in 4K by Recorded Picture Company and Turbine Media Group.

The news comes courtesy of The Playlist, and they note that both Cronenberg and director of photography Peter Suschitzky supervised the restoration from the original negative.

This brand new restoration will screen at the Venice Film Festival this year, “and will then look for worldwide distribution afterward.”

“Strange to think that this movie needed restoration,” said Cronenberg. “Seems like only yesterday that we were shooting it. Just emphasizes the fragility of our beautiful art form, but also its resilience. Wonderful to see it and hear it in its full glory after its loving resurrection by Turbine.”

An adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s same-named novel from 1973, Crash starred James Spader, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, telling the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car crashes. It was originally released back in 1996.