The Shrouds

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The Shrouds

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In Theaters Fri Apr 18

1h 59m

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals.

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Ruminating on the love within loss, The Shrouds is a personal and peculiar examination of grief by director David Cronenberg.

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David Cronenberg

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Vincent Cassel

Karsh

Diane Kruger

Becca

Guy Pearce

Maury

Sandrine Holt

Soo-Min

Elizabeth Saunders

Gray Foner

Kenji Fujishima

Slant Magazine

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.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 5, 2024

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

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.

Sep 18, 2024

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Drew Gregory

Autostraddle

With every passing moment of the often enthralling, occasionally tedious new film from David Cronenberg, it becomes more confounding, more perverted, and, ultimately, more accomplished.

Sep 13, 2024

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Paula Farmer

culturevulture.net

While many, especially die-hard Cronenberg fans, may find The Shrouds eerie and thought provoking, many others (myself included) will just find it odd, uneven and unsatisfying.

Oct 31, 2024

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Grief is universal in that we all experience it at some point, but it’s also a personal, lonely experience because we all have a different relationship to whoever it is we are grieving.

Oct 11, 2024

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

There's plenty of humor in The Shrouds, but the grasping at the loss of a loved one and the hard act of letting go of the earthly, bodily attachment rings true.

Oct 10, 2024

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Synopsis

Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals.

Director: David Cronenberg
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd, Anthony Vaccarello, Martin Katz
Screenwriter: David Cronenberg
Distributor: Sideshow / Janus Films
Production Co: Prospero Pictures
Rating: R (Strong Sexual Content|Graphic Nudity|Some Violent Content|Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 18, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital