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Double identity: David Cronenberg's a history of violence.
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Take One
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September 1, 2005
- Author:
- Alioff, Maurie
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In an era of independent films that are calculated attention grabbers and mainstream movies pumped up with sound and fury, it's inspiring that David Cronenberg has made a movie as gripping, intricate and flawlessly directed as A History of Violence.
Cronenberg's first picture since Spider, his portrait of a madman desperately trying to grasp why he lost his mind, is free of both directorial muscle--flexing and the intellectual doily--making endemic of directors who think they have something big to say. Working with frequent collaborators such as cinematographer Peter Suschitsky and composer Howard Shore, Cronenberg consistently hits the right notes on everything from the ...