Diane Kruger replaced Léa Seydoux in her role
Scenario
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a funeral shroud.
Featured in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024)
David Cronenberg’s latest cinematic offering, “The Shrouds,” left me pondering a burning question: Did Elon Musk fund this as a 2-hour Tesla commercial, or was it just a happy accident?
If this sounds familiar, it’s because Cronenberg has done it all (voyeurism, obsession with death) before – only much better, with fewer gadgets and more substance
🤑In a plot that itself feels like a well-worn shroud, Karsh, an innovative businessman (read: Tesla enthusiast), builds a device to connect with the dead inside funeral shrouds.
The film drifts through themes of grief, technology, and of course, a mandatory dystopian future with evil Russians/Chinese
All the while, one wonders why any of this needed to exist in 2024, if not to remind us to take data security seriously.