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119m
The Shrouds
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Synopsis
From body horror maestro David Cronenberg comes his most personal film yet; THE SHROUDS, a new vision of the future starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce.
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed The Shourds - new software that allows the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of deceased loved ones that have been buried in specially equipped coffins. Still reeling from the death of his wife, Becca (Kruger), who passed four years earlier from cancer, and while beginning a complicated relationship with her sister, Terry (also Kruger), a patch of graves utilising this new technology are vandalised, and the feeds to the coffins become encrypted. With his enterprise how at risk, and the feed to his wife's corpse lost, Krash sets out to uncover who's behind the targeted attack, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.
Written following the death of his wife, THE SHROUDS is a profoundly personal reckoning with grief, offering Cronenberg's customary balance of malevolence and wit while questioning the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.
Starts July 3 at Luna Leederville.
Opening Date
Thursday, Jul 3, 2025
Rating
MA15+
Length
119m
Genre
New Release
Reviews
★★★★ Cronenberg’s Finnegans Wake. He’s speaking his own cinematic language now.
The Shrouds’ true center is Kassel’s performance. He translates grief into a restless electrical energy; you can practically feel it vibrating through his agile, lanky frame.
A film that will not only go down as one of the very best films of this year but deserves to ranked as one of the boldest, bravest and best works of Cronenberg’s entire career.
Cronenberg speaks through every frame: a filmmaker baring his soul in the only language he knows - one of flesh, decay, and the futile, beautiful need to connect before we disappear.
An absolutely original vision. It’s a wail of grief, an expression of love, a testament to the body.
With The Shrouds, the filmmaker -- not only one of Canada’s greatest creations, but cinema’s, too -- has delivered what might be his career-defining masterpiece.
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