'The Shrouds' review: Livecams inside graves and other Cronenberg-isms
- David Cronenberg directed the film 'The Shrouds', which opened in Seattle on April 25.
- The film draws inspiration from Cronenberg's wife's death in 2017 and explores grief.
- Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, a tech magnate selling shrouds that livestream the deceased's decay.
- Karsh's company GraveTech transmits images to screen-embedded headstones via an app.
- The narrative examines blurring lines between life, death, biology, and technology.
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‘The Shrouds’ Director David Cronenberg Wants to Retire the Term ‘Body Horror’
David Cronenberg, aficionado of the unnerving, won’t let his feelings about a creator get in the way of a creation. “I still love my Tesla,” says the filmmaker, seated in a dimly lit conference room at the Criterion Collection’s Manhattan office. “My relationship with my Tesla has nothing to do with Elon. We have a separate love.” He smiles wanly. One of Musk’s machines plays a minor role in Cronenberg’s latest picture, The Shrouds (out now), …
Film Review: The Shrouds Is a Shallow Grave
With his latest film The Shrouds, the 82-year-old Canadian filmmaker homes in on the reality that these bodies of ours will one day rot away or be reduced to ashes. It’s an unsettling truth that's easy to stuff aside, even as we watch a loved one lowered into the earth. by Robert Ham This review originally appeared in the Portland Mercury. David Cronenberg’s chief cinematic obsession has long been the human body and all the painful, pleasurable…
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