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Winner of the Critics' Week Prize at Cannes in 1993, CRONOS is an original, stylish and sophisticated reworking of the vampire themes of dread and desire. More than four centuries after it was created by an alchemist in search of eternal life, an antiques dealer in Mexico City discovers the Cronos Device inside a statue. Intrigued yet horrified, he finds himself literally in the grip of the device which grants the user eternal life in exchange for an unquenchable thirst for blood. At the same time, a dying American millionaire discovers the existence of the device and becomes obsessed with finding it and in doing so guaranteeing himself eternal life. The film revels in its own many mysteries, and finds its originality through clever ambiguities and unexpected grace.