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How the Death of David Cronenberg’s Wife of 43 Years Inspired ‘The Shrouds’: ‘Grief Is Forever’


David Cronenberg on the influence of his wife's death on his new thriller 'The Shrouds' and the planned series that Netflix passed on making.

David Cronenberg is returning to Cannes with “ The Shrouds,” the story of an industrialist named Karsh, who invents a controversial technology that allows grieving families to see inside the graves of their loved ones with high-resolution cameras. This being a Cronenberg production, there are elements of body horror, but there’s also a conspiracist undercurrent, as Karsh ( Vincent Cassel) begins to suspect that shadowy forces are undercutting his expansion plans after his cemetery is ransacked. And he would get involved in the politics of different countries and see the different ways they treated graves — burying the dead is hugely significant in just about every culture, but customs vary dramatically.

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