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The master of horror David Cronenberg will receive the Donostia Awarda career award, al 70th San Sebastian Film Festival. The Canadian director will receive the award during a gala on 21 September at the Victoria Eugenia Theater in San Sebastian, where his latest film will be screened. Crimes of the Future.
Crimes of the Futureinterpreted by Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux And Kristen Stewart, premiered in Competition at Cannes last month, a return to the body horror genre created by the science fiction master Cronenberg himself. Since his first works, ne The demon under the skin (1975), Rabid (1977) and Brood – The evil brood (1979), the Canadian director subverted the horror tropes of B-movies. He told disturbing stories in haunted psychological films, such as Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), Inseparable (1988), The naked meal (1991) and eXistenZ (1999), and used the science fiction genre to deliver a subversive critical point of view on modern society technology driven.
The latter part of Cronenberg’s career was characterized by his collaboration with Mortensenwith whom he made four films, including A History of Violence (2005) and A Dangerous Method (2011), and Robert Pattinsonwhich appeared in both Cosmopolis (2012) and in Maps to the Star (2014).
This award represents the third step of Cronenberg at San Sebastian, after the 2004 screening of Crash as part of the retrospective of [email protected] and after his drama set in London, The promise of the murdererwith Mortensenhad opened the Spanish festival in 2007.
Cronenberg joins an illustrious list of winners of the Donostia Awardwhich includes, among others, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, Agnès Varda, Hirokazu Koreeda And Costa-Gavras.
The 70th San Sebastian Film Festival will take place from 16 to 24 September 2022.
