Tonight we’ve got the first The first teaser trailer David Cronenberg’s new film project The Shrouds, which explores the topic of reconnecting with the dead.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt, The Shrouds follows a character named Karsh, who happens to be “a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.”
“Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, will drive Karsh to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings.”
Hmmm, sounds like an interesting concept! Here’s what Cronenberg had to say:
Most burial rituals are about avoiding the reality of death and the reality of what happens to a body. I would say that in our movie this is a reversal of the normal function of a shroud. Here, it is to reveal rather than to conceal.
I was writing this film while experiencing the grief of the loss of my wife, who died seven years ago. It was an exploration for me because it was not just a technical exercise, it was an emotional exercise. In a way, the shrouds that my main character has invented are cinematic devices… They are creating their own cinema, a post-death cinema, a cinema of decay. Before writing the script, I was aware that there was a cinematic aspect to the shrouds, creating their own strange grave cinema, cemetery cinema.
Check out the trailer below:
The Shrouds will premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in France, then open in France in September. We’ll update you when we get a UK date!
What do you think of the trailer for Cronenberg’s The Shrouds? Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
