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Apr 2012 26

by Daniel Robert Epstein

“In those movies my job is to seduce the audience into the movie and into some kind of empathy and understanding for the characters.”
– David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg is the brilliant auteur behind such films as The Fly, Naked Lunch, Crash and Spider. His latest film, A History of Violence, may finally be the one that takes him to the Academy Awards. Based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke it stars Viggo Mortensen as a pillar of a small town community who runs a diner and lives a happy and quiet life with his wife [Maria Bello] and two children. Their lives are forever changed when Mortensen thwarts an attempted robbery and is lauded as a hero by the media, attracting the attention of some mobsters (Ed Harris) who believe he is someone else.

Read our exclusive interview with David Cronenberg on SuicideGirls.com.