Strange but true: after 15 years as an international movie star, propelled to fame in 2004 by Wolfgang Petersen’s historical epic Troy, German-born Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her first-ever performance in her native language. Fatih Akin’s provocative 2017 drama In the Fade, in which …
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“I took it hard. I wanted it to be special for him,” says Diane Kruger of performing in David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, a film the legendary director wrote as part of his grieving process after the death of his late wife, Carolyn. The Shrouds, which is screening in competition in Cannes, follows …
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The body, as any fan of David Cronenberg’s cinema knows, will betray you. Canada’s greatest gift to genre film has spent half a century exploring how treacherous the human organism can be. How our frail frames can be infected, mutated or corrupted by outside invasion — see Rabid, Shivers or The Fly — or by …
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For the longest time, Caitlin Cronenberg wanted no part of the director’s chair. As a highly successful photographer who’s shot everyone and everything — including the much-publicized cover art for Drake’s fourth studio album, Views — she had no interest in following in the footsteps of her father, David Cronenberg, and older …
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Infinity Pool, the out-there horror film from director Brandon Cronenberg, was one of many talks of the Sundance Movie Pageant. With its eye-popping and blood-gushing violence and hallucinatory orgies, the film had audiences rubbing their eyes in disbelief. What did they simply see? The film stars Alexander Skarsgard as an …
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I gained’t be the primary or final particular person to look at that Infinity Pool is just about The White Lotus with thick dollops of gore, hallucinatory visions, orgiastic sleaze, queasy cloning and state-sanctioned psychosis. If that appears like your factor, dive proper in. Although the household imprimatur remains to …
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