David Cronenberg: 'I don't see myself as a prophet'

He climbed the steps of the Cannes Film Festival with strange white-rimmed dark glasses that gave him the look of a fly.

True to form, Canadian master David Cronenberg, 79, still likes to stand out.

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• Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection

With

, a science-fiction film starring Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortensen, the man who influenced Julia Ducournau (palme d'or last year with

) returns to the official selection, eight years after

.

Before its screening, this story of performer artists using their bodies as material for creative experimentation has already given rise to many contradictory opinions.

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, by David Cronenberg

With a smile on his lips, this mutant director, whose cinema has never stopped pushing the limits of horror, hopes for the best, and already accepts any controversies, such as those that

triggered at Cannes in 1996, but who won the Special Jury Prize.

LE FIGARO.

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