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David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds,’ About a Corpse-Obsessed Widow, Gets Polite 3.5-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes


David Cronenberg's latest film, 'The Shrouds,' earned a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival on Monday night.

David Cronenberg ’s “ The Shrouds,” the horror auteur’s latest film about a widow who invents technology to see inside his late wife’s grave, received a 3.5-minute standing ovation at its Cannes premiere on Monday night. Described as an arthouse horror film, “The Shrouds” stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce. He creates a new technology, called GraveTech, which “enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds,” according to the film’s synopsis.

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