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Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. (R, 120 min.)
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In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite. [Variance]
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt
Director: David Cronenberg
Genre: Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller
"Cronenberg fans, you will not want to miss this one."
— Chase Hutchinson, Collider
"It’s a film of bold ideas and moments of terrific atmosphere and visual power."
— Dave Calhoun, Time Out
"It’s a deeply personal look at loss that finds plenty of time to get creepy but never loses sight of the fact that it’s a movie about grief."
— Steve Pond, TheWrap
"An obvious inspiration pulled from experiencing losing his wife Carolyn to cancer, Cronenberg delivers a subdued horror film on grief, which feels unlike any of his previous works."
— Patrice Witherspoon, Screen Rant
"Possibly the Toronto writer/director’s best film, showcasing his fascination with body horror, advanced technology and high paranoia in a way that also genuinely touches the heart"
— Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"The film shares with Crimes of the Future an alternately intrigued and critical fascination with the ways technology encroaches on humanity, and a paranoid interest in rooting out underlying conspiracies."
— Kenji Fujishima, Slant Magazine
"Like 2022’s superb Crimes of the Future, The Shrouds serves as a reminder that, at 81 years old, Cronenberg is still one of the world’s great filmmakers: bold, uncompromising, clever, and fearless."
— Adam Nayman, The Ringer
"A drolly fluid inspection of classic Cronenberg themes -- the deterioration of the flesh, the instability of the image, the paranoia-inducing incursions of technology into every aspect of life -- but imbued with a nakedly personal dimension."
— Justin Chang, The New Yorker
"The Shrouds may seem impenetrable at first, but it grows in the mind and heart like a cancer. Let it linger long enough, and it also starts to feel like Cronenberg's most complete, self-assured, and dramatically accomplished work in years."
— Siddhant Adlakha, IGN
