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‘The Shrouds’ Review: Body Horror Master David Cronenberg Loses The Plot In A Tangle Of Conspiracy Theories – Cannes Film Festival
Whatever else you may expect of David Cronenberg as a distinctive auteur, you’re not expecting the narrative to explode into bits.
Now 81, he has forged his own genre from this mix of the visceral and cerebral, sticking to a plain shooting style and encouraging a lack of affect in his actors that leaves us in no doubt that these are primarily think pieces. Diane Kruger plays both his dead wife — always naked and sometimes partially dismembered in his tormented black-and-white dreams — and her sister Terry, a zany dog-walker who corners him into having an affair with her. Title: The Shrouds Festival: Cannes (Competition) Director-screenwriter: David Cronenberg Cast: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt Sales agent: SBS International Running time: 1 hr 56 min
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