Director and screenwriter are honored at a gala in Victoria Eugenia showing ‘Crimes of the Future’, his latest film
In the 70th edition, Zinemaldia will recognize the work of Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg (Toronto, 1943) with a Donostia Award. It will be at a gala that will take place on September 21 at the Victoria Eugenia Theater and will show ‘Crimes of the Future’, his latest work with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, which took part in the last Cannes festival . The director joins the actress Juliette Binoche, who will receive the award in addition to the image of the official poster of the competition, and possibly more names will be included.
Exponent, with permission from David Lynch, of the most disturbing and morbid cinema, his unclassifiable films – which, if framed in any genre, would be science fiction, horror and psychological drama -, represent a personal and unique universe. Without becoming an outsider to the industry, his approaches have made it increasingly difficult for him to complete a project. Specifically to make “Crimes of the Future,” it took him eight years and along the way he left half the project of a series at Netflix because he disagreed with the demands of the platform, which he accused of being conservative. Twenty films make up his filmography. He is already working on his next project, ‘The Shrouds’, in which he will meet Vincent Cassel, about ‘an innovative businessman and a grieving widower, who builds a device to make contact with the dead inside a shroud’.
In 2007 he opened the festival with ‘Promesas del Este’. Speaking about his films showing violence and sex more explicitly than usual, he noted that it was part of a claim to the right to freedom of expression. “Artists are constantly fighting to achieve this and we must maintain this position against censorship,” he explained in an interview with this newspaper.
In his experimental beginnings, with films such as ‘Stereo’ or ‘Crimes of the Future’ (1970), which bears the same title as his last work, he was already thinking of ‘body horror’, in which he explores the human fears of bodily transformation. and infection investigated. , mixing the psychological aspect and science fiction. So, within what is artistically termed ‘New Flesh’ -the aesthetic and extreme representation of pain and breaking the boundaries between body and mind-, ‘Shivers’ (‘They came from within…’, 1975), ‘Rabid ‘ (‘Rabia’, 1977) or ‘The Brood’ (‘Chromosoma 3’, 1979) to ‘Videodrome’ (1983), which earned him international recognition.
He gained public favor with the remake of ‘The Fly’ (1986), in which a scientist is transformed by his own experiment, something akin to what happens in ‘Inseparable’ (1988), where Jeremy Irons unfolds in two anguished gynecologist twins . Then he shot ‘M. Butterfly’ (1993), which gives way to a more psychological theme like ‘Crash’ (1996), which analyzes the sexual arousal of the characters when they have car accidents; ‘Exitenz’ (1999), where he is introduced to virtual reality; or ‘Spider’ (2002), on mental illness,
Despite showing such a personal world, many of his films are adaptations of novels: ‘The Dead Zone’ (1983), part of a text by Stephen King; ‘William Burroughs is behind ‘Naked Lunch’ (1991); ‘The Fly’ is based on a short story by George Langelaan; in ‘Crash’ he adapted JG Ballard and in ‘Cosmopolis’ (2012) he recreated Don DeLillo’s novel.
The thriller has also found a place in Cronenberg’s filmography, especially around the turn of the century. In 2005 he made ‘A history of violence’ (2005). It was his first collaboration with Viggo Mortensen. Later together they made ‘Promesas del Este’ (2007) and ‘A dangerous method’ (2011). The actor returns to the Canadian’s orders in “Crimes of the Future,” though there is a previous collaboration between the two as Cronenberg was featured in “Falling,” directed by Mortensen.
Source: La Verdad
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