The Shrouds

From body horror maestro David Cronenberg comes his most personal film yet; THE SHROUDS, a new vision of the future starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and Guy Pearce.

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed The Shourds - new software that allows the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of deceased loved ones that have been buried in specially equipped coffins. Still reeling from the death of his wife, Becca (Kruger), who passed four years earlier from cancer, and while beginning a complicated relationship with her sister, Terry (also Kruger), a patch of graves utilising this new technology are vandalised, and the feeds to the coffins become encrypted. With his enterprise how at risk, and the feed to his wife's corpse lost, Krash sets out to uncover who's behind the targeted attack, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.

Written following the death of his wife, THE SHROUDS is a profoundly personal reckoning with grief, offering Cronenberg's customary balance of malevolence and wit while questioning the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.

Starts July 3 at Luna Leederville.