First Look Teaser for Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ with Vincent Cassel

First Look Teaser for Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ with Vincent Cassel

by Alex Billington
May 13, 2024
Source: YouTube

“It’s obvious they were tracking you through her.” An early first look teaser trailer has debuted for the next film from acclaimed genre filmmaker David Cronenberg titled The Shrouds. It’s set to premiere later this week at the prestigious 2024 Cannes Film Festival in France, before arriving in theaters later in 2024. Variety explains the premise: “The Shrouds centers on Karsh, 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.” It’s inspired by the idea of reconnecting with the dead, but goes beyond that as Cronenberg explains his own “shrouds” are “cinematic devices” and describes this film as “cemetery cinema.” Yeah, I’m in. Sounds like he’s getting his fingers dirty digging around in graves. The film stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt. Not a lot of footage yet, but I’m certainly curious. “Why would they do that?” Indeed, that is the question, Karsh.

Here’s the first look teaser trailer for David Cronenberg’s film The Shrouds, direct from YouTube (via BD):

“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.” –Writer / Director David Cronenberg

Karsh (Cassel) is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, revolutionary & 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. The Shrouds, also known as Les linceuls in French, is written and directed by the acclaimed Canadian genre filmmaker David Cronenberg, director of many great films including Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, M. Butterfly, eXistenZ, Spider, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars, and Crimes of the Future previously. It’s produced by Saïd Ben Saïd, Martin Katz, and Anthony Vaccarello. This is premiering at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Main Competition. The film will open in France in September later this year. No US date is set yet – stay tuned for more news. Intrigued?

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