The director returns to the French competition two years after ‘Crimes of the Future’ with a film directed by Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger
The master of the new flesh, the one of those stories in which the flesh mutates, has returned to Cannes. David Cronenberg, who has never taken the Palme d’Or home, returns to the French competition two years after Crimes of the future. In his new project, The Shrouds, the filmmaker has a cast led by Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.
The Shrouds follows a man who has created an invention that has made him rich: a hypertechnological shroud with which living relatives can see the decomposing body through an application. The idea arose after the death of his wife, who has a twin sister. The action starts when his invention is vandalized and the protagonist investigates who is behind him, which leads him to discover something strange with the skeleton of his wife.
Cronenberg began his career as a director with films in which the bodies of his characters transform and mutate. Hence his cinema was called new meat. Julia Ducournau, director of films such as Raw and titan, is a worthy successor. However, over time, Cronenberg evolved and moved to a more talkative, more psychological and more violent cinema.
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Crimes of the future It was the mixture of its two stages: New meat and a lot of dialogue. With The Shroudsthe filmmaker follows that line and creates a Deeply emotional ‘thriller’ that talks about very complex topics, but without losing its most brutal and extreme essence.
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“You could define The Shrouds as a Technosexual ‘thriller’ focused on illness, death and grief“, summarizes Alejandro G. Calvo.
“There is a point of necrophilia in Vertigo because his dead wife has a twin sister with whom this perversion is introduced,” she adds. Kruger is in charge of giving life to the twin sisters and Cassel, for her part, the protagonist, whose physique closely resembles that of Cronenberg. ” The film is still deeply emotional because it is sad even though itThe solutions he is taking are really extreme in the representation of the body, the illness, the pain.“.
As he adds:
I was fascinated that someone today could write such an adult script that talks about loss and, at the same time, know how to translate it into a very adult thriller with sex scenes and hilarious moments.
The Shrouds It’s sad and emotional, but Cronenberg is able to find the balance with comedic elements. Although it seems like a very complex film, it is a “It looks great, you enjoy it while you watch it and it excites you”. “At 81 years old, Cronenberg is demonstrating a level of potential, a brutal level as an author. A man who has led an impeccable career, which leaves me absolutely surrendered at his feet,” he concludes.
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