The Shrouds (2025)
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Director: David Cronenberg Run Time: 119 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2025
Starring: Diane Kruger, Elizabeth Saunders, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Vincent Cassel
Country: France, Canada
Language: English, French
About the film:
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.
“The Shrouds feels like Cronenberg’s most complete, self-assured, and dramatically accomplished work in years.”
–Siddhant Adlakha, IGN
About the filmmaker:
David Paul Cronenberg is a Canadian director, producer, screenwriter, and occasional actor, born in Toronto in 1943. He’s known for his controversial horror films that explore the intersection of the psychological, physical, and technological. His work often features visceral bodily transformation and infectious diseases, and he’s considered a pioneer of the body horror genre.
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