David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds, a haunting and deeply personal sci-fi mystery that blends grief, voyeurism, and conspiracy in a near-future where even death isn’t private. 

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel, La Haine, Eastern Promises) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved, through an app, Gravetech, to view their loved ones, whose remains decompose in specially designed burial shrouds, within his unusually extravagant cemetery (and restaurant all in one). It is also where his late wife Becca (Diane Kruger, Inglorious Basterds) resides, and one night, while Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife from cancer and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger), multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. The perpetrators are utilizing his “shroud” technology, which begins to put his enterprise at risk, so as Karsh sets out to track down these criminals, his investigation leads him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.  

Written following the death of the director’s wife, this new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants, which collapses into a nightmare of sex, paranoia, and grief in his most personal film.