A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE at the Toronto Film Festival
September 12th, 2005 by Andre Soares
At a Toronto International Film Festival press conference, Canadian director David Cronenberg explained that his latest film, A History of Violence, is not merely a critique of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
"You’re really talking about the human condition," Cronenberg asserted, "because there’s no country on Earth that wasn’t founded on violence done to somebody."*
In A History of Violence, Viggo Mortensen plays the owner of a small-town diner who becomes a national hero after killing a handful of thugs. His shady past, however, comes back to haunt him.
A History of Violence opens in select U.S. theaters on September 23.
* As quoted on CBC.
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