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Diane Kruger replaced Léa Seydoux in her role
Story
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to communicate with the dead in a funeral shroud.
Mentioned in the Film Junk podcast: Episode 961: In Brutal Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024)
David Cronenberg’s latest theatrical offering, “The Shrouds,” got me wondering about a burning question: Did Elon Musk finance it as a 2-hour Tesla commercial, or was it just a happy accident?
If this sounds familiar, that’s because Cronenberg has done it all before (voyeurism, obsession with death) – only much better, with less gadgetry and more substance
🤑 In a plot that itself sounds like a well-used shroud, Karsh, an innovative businessman (read: Tesla enthusiast), builds a device to contact the dead in funeral shrouds.
The film moves through themes of grief, technology, and of course the obligatory dystopian future with evil Russians/Chinese
All the while you wonder why any of this needs to exist in 2024, if not to remind us that data security should be taken seriously.
