Canadian filmmaker David 
Cronenberg, best known for The Fly, has received France’s highest civilian honour.
…”Thank you all for your indulgence,” he said, receiving the Legion of Honour at a ceremony in Toronto”.
…The controversial director, 66, lived in France in the 1970s.
…”I feel that France is also my country, another parent who has been proudly indulgent… and sternly critical when that was best,” said Cronenberg.
…Cronenberg has been celebrated for the dark undertones that populate his work in films including Scanners, Dead Ringers and Crash – which won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1996.
…More recent work includes the Oscar-nominated A History of Violence, and Eastern Promises, both starring Viggo Mortensen.
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