THE SHROUDS

FRANCE, CANADA | 2024 | COLOR | DCP |119’ | ENGLISH

"How dark are you willing to go?" asks the protagonist, Vincent Cassel, as if addressing the audience. Then, David Cronenberg answers with a genuinely macabre, highly personal film, about a widowed businessman who builds an innovative cemetery in honour of his dead wife. When it is mysteriously vandalized one night, he finds himself in the middle of a dense conspiracy that intertwines environmental activism with privacy violations and international espionage. The great Canadian filmmaker may be exploring again the relationship between the human body, technology and the rapidly changing world around him, but this time he reflects from the perspective of an artist with a clearer than ever awareness of his own mortality.

DIRECTOR: David Cronenberg
SCREENWRITER: David Cronenberg
DoP: Douglas Koch
MUSIC: Howard Shore
EDITOR: Christopher Donaldson
PRINCIPAL CAST: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Peace, Sandrine Holt

DAVID CRONENBERG
Canadian director, born in 1943. He studied English Literature at the University of Toronto and almost immediately started directing for television, short films and, soon, feature films. Considered as the high priest of the ‘body horror’ genre, controversial yet consistently exciting and authentic.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2024 The Shrouds 
2011 A Dangerous Method 
2007 Eastern Promises 
2005 A History of Violence 
2002 Spider 
1996 Crash 
1993 M. Butterfly 
1991 Naked Lunch 
1988 Dead Ringers 
1986 The Fly 
1983 Videodrome 
1981 Scanners 
1979 The Brood