By MICHAEL GINGOLD
One of the legendary filmmaker’s most intimate examinations of death is coming next month.
Sideshow and Janus Films will open THE SHROUDS in New York and Los Angeles April 18, followed by nationwide release April 25. Written and directed by David Cronenberg, it stars Vincent Kassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders and Jennifer Dale. The synopsis: “In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh [Cassel] has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife [Kruger] from cancer–and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister [also Kruger]–a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his ‘shroud’ technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.”
