The Shrouds

The new horror from legendary director David Cronenberg comes to the Circle on Fri 4/25!

1h59min - Body Horror / Thriller - Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language, and violence - English

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.

Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg ("The Fly," "A History of Violence," "Videodrome") is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, "The Shrouds" is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.