FILM
THE SHROUDS
DAVID CRONENBERG IS THINKING ABOUT DEATH
Grief gets an upgrade.
★★★★
OUT 4 JULY / CERT 15 / 119 MINS
DIRECTOR David Cronenberg
CAST Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt
PLOT A grieving tech pioneer (Cassel) is drawn into a conspiracy after his grave live-streaming software is hacked and his cemetery vandalised.
“YOU’VE MADE A career out of bodies,” says Terry (Diane Kruger) to her brother-inlaw Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a widower hollowed out by his wife Becca’s (also Diane Kruger) death. This line will raise a smile for anyone even slightly familiar with the films of writer and director David Cronenberg, whose oeuvre, from The Fly to Crimes Of The Future, has always been profoundly concerned with matters of the flesh.