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The New York Times5d
‘The Shrouds’ Review: For Cronenberg, Grief Is an Obsession
The director’s latest stars Vincent Cassel as an entrepreneur who mourns the death of his wife by inventing technology that surveils her entombed body. By Elisabeth Vincentelli When you purchase ...
Wall Street Journal4d
‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg Peers Into the Grave
Karsh, who as played by Vincent Cassel looks a lot like Mr. Cronenberg, is a grieving Toronto widower (as Mr. Cronenberg has been since losing his wife eight years ago) haunted by dreams about his ...
Yahoo6d
‘The Shrouds’ Is David Cronenberg’s Most Personal Movie Since ‘The Fly’
David Cronenberg would like to have a few words with you about death. Present, though in the eyes of Karsh (Vincent Cassel), our tour guide of the 21st Century Grief Industrial Complex ...
Los Angeles Times3d
For a mogul who can’t accept the end, a high-tech tomb becomes a portal in ‘The Shrouds’
“How dark are you willing to go?” widowed entrepreneur Karsh (a weary, distinguished Vincent Cassel) asks his elegant also-widowed companion (Jennifer Dale) when she expresses curiosity about ...
Moviefone3d
It’s a brand-new mourning in Director David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’
Grief, technology, and psychology are on the slab in ‘The Shrouds,’ director David Cronenberg’s witty, perverse, provocative peek inside the grave. Just as his 1979 horror classic ‘The ...
Rolling Stone6d
‘The Shrouds’ Is David Cronenberg’s Most Personal Movie Since ‘The Fly’
Present, though in the eyes of Karsh (Vincent Cassel), our tour guide of the 21st Century Grief Industrial Complex, not permanent. Not exactly. A creator of industrial videos by trade, this dapper ...
The Village Voice3d
Interview: Director David Cronenberg on Melancholy and ‘The Shrouds’
Starring Vincent Cassel as the widower Karsh, a prominent businessman who has made melancholy his main means of commerce, The Shrouds is set in an eerie, deceptively placid near-future wherein ...
New Republic4d
David Cronenberg Takes High Tech to the Graveyard
The French Surrealist Jean Cocteau once said that the cinema was “death at work.” David Cronenberg’s gloriously morbid new movie, The Shrouds, concerns a filmmaker who takes his work home ...
The New York Times4d
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in “The Shrouds,” the latest twist on body horror from David Cronenberg.Credit...Sophie Giraud/Janus Films We are having trouble retrieving the article content.
The Daily Beast4d
‘The Shrouds’: Would You Pay to Watch Your Dead Loved Ones Decay?
Terry is a veterinarian-turned-dog groomer and the sister-in-law of Karsh (Vincent Cassel), the founder of GraveTech, who’s made a pretty penny with his bizarre brainchild: a high-tech shroud ...
Los Angeles Times6d
After losing his wife of 43 years, David Cronenberg turned the camera on grief itself
Written in the aftermath of his wife Carolyn’s death in 2017 — at age 66 after 43 years of marriage — the film centers on a grieving tech entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel ...
TheWrap4d
The Top 21 New Movies Streaming Right Now
Vincent Cassel, perhaps looking more attractive than he ever has before, plays an aging DJ who goes by the name Scorpex. He’s recruited by a drug task force to take down a fellow DJ, one that he ...