A History of Violence: Cronenberg's Quietest, Nastiest Film

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

David Cronenberg spent thirty years making films about flesh that betrays its owner — exploding heads, gun-tumours, men turning into insects, television sets that breathe. Then in 2005 he made a lean, handsome American thriller set in a small Indiana town, with movie stars and a three-act structure and almost no prosthetics, and it turned out to be one of the most quietly disturbing things he ever put on screen. A History of Violence is Cronenberg’s most accessible film and, watched closely, one of his cruellest.

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A History of Violence: Cronenberg's Quietest, Nastiest Film