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May 25, 2005
Happy man: David Cronenberg
A late Cannes snap by Macleans' Brian D. Johnson: "The premiere of A History of Violence, Canadian David Cronenberg's Hollywood-financed thriller. The audience has been on its feet, clapping and cheering, for 5 minutes. Cronenberg blows them kisses with arms outstretched. He hugs his stars, Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and William Hurt, while his wife, Carolyn, working with a professional camera, captures it all on video. Finally, Cronenberg gives her a passionate embrace... Taking the camera, he holds it aloft in a triumphant salute and executes a slow pan around the room, like a rock star offering up the microphone to the crowd. Earlier he had turned tables on photographers by shooting back with his own Nikon... The idea of filming his own standing ovation, he swears, was unpremeditated: "I was running out of things to do," he says. "At that point, I would have done backflips if could." [There's more in the piece on both Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan, who brought his Where the Truth Lies to town.]
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