After last year’s controversial Donostia Prize, In 2022, the person to receive this award at the San Sebastian Film Festival will be director and screenwriter David Cronenberg, to be “one of the most unique directors of the last half century”, according to the declaration of the Festival. The awards ceremony will take place on 21 September at the Victoria Eugenia Theater, at the height of its 70th edition which will take place from the 16th to the 24th of that month.
“Master of biological horror, of disturbing atmospheres and of a universe as personal as it is non-transferable”the note says, the truth is that Cronenberg has been behind the cameras for five decades and his filmography includes titles like ‘Videodrome’, ‘Scanners’, ‘The dead zone’ and The fly ‘, all in the 1980s, their most successful period. He is also the director of ‘They came from inside …’, ‘Crash’ (but that of 1996) and ‘eXistenZ’, and since 2005 a faithful ally of Viggo Mortensen, who starred in ‘A history of violence’, ‘ Eastern Promises’, ‘A dangerous method’ and now ‘Crimes of the future’. Science fiction, horror, psychological drama and thriller are the genres that most interest this Canadian director, who has been to the San Sebastian Film Festival only once, in 2007, to open the section of the official competition. Now in its 70th edition, Cronenberg will join the infamous list of directors who can boast of having been awarded the Donostia Prize, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Oliver Stone, Agnès Varda and Costa-Gavras.
David Cronenberg adapted novels by Stephen King, William Burroughs and JG Ballard for the screen directed Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Geena Davis, Michael Fassbender, Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh, among others. In addition, he has also worked as an actor in films ranging from ‘Razas de noche’ to ‘Todo por un sueño’ and ‘Falling’, and also in series such as ‘Alias Grace’, ‘Slasher’ and ‘Alias’. Director, screenwriter and actor, Cronenberg is also a writer and has published a novel: “Consumed” from 2016.
“The crimes of the future”
Furthermore, after the award ceremony, the festival will screen Cronenberg’s latest feature film to date at the Victoria Eugenia Theater: “Crimes of the Future” a sci-fi horror thriller starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart. LThe film, which has no release date in Spain, It takes us into a future where the human species is adapting to a synthetic environment, subjecting their bodies to mutations and transformations. Saul Tenser (Mortensen) is a celebrated performance artist who publicly displays the changing of his organs in avant-garde performances alongside his partner Caprice (Seydoux). Timlin (Stewart) is instead a researcher with the National Organ Registry who discovers a mysterious group …
Source: E Cartelera
