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"The Shrouds": David Cronenberg in full funeral pomp

"The Shrouds": David Cronenberg in full funeral pomp
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With this truly twilight feature film, the filmmaker powerfully transcribes the pain of mourning, in a world where cameras spy even inside coffins.
With his slicked-back mane and pool-blue gaze lost in the afterlife, Vincent Cassel becomes the filmmaker's double. (Pyramide Films)

A silence of almost ten years between the astonishing and furious Maps to the Stars (2014) and the abstract darkness of Crimes of the Future (2022). And then a sudden acceleration, a (final?) jolt, an addendum? Shrouds, presented at Cannes last year and rather coldly received there, is David Cronenberg's twenty-third film, more than fifty years of career in the carcass and a grief to digest, that of his wife, Carolyn Zeifman, who died in 2017. To do this, the

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