Toronto’s King of Creep David Cronenberg back with ‘The Shrouds’

David Cronenberg invents “high-tech” necrophilic voyeurism in “The Shrounts”, but the story's fascinating and gloomy premise is lost in confusing subplots. Eurico de Barros gives it two stars.

The director delivers an intimate film, in which a businessman is confronted with multiple doubles of his dead wife.

In this very twilight feature film, the filmmaker powerfully transcribes the pain of mourning, in a world where the cameras spy on the inside of the coffins.

“The Shrouds – The Deaths”, by David Cronberg, the film Lara Marques Pereira, co-ordinator-general of Manh R’s Mail, highlights this week. The performer announced that this would be his final film, which addresses the link between the body, death and technology and which ended a very personal history.

(Fake) Cronenberg's latest film, the Shrouds is far from being one of his best, but offers us an intimate and frontal talk on the grieving issue, unfortunately degraded by a second too complex part. David Cronenberg's post "The Shrouds": vanity care... appeared first on Benzine Magazine.

When David Cronenberg ventured out of the fantastic cinema in the early 2000s, he quickly split his rich filmography into two parts: the body-horror part and the dramatic part. When he presented his Crimes of the Future in Cannes 2022, we had more quickly [...]