Manchester
The Shrouds (15)
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh 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 from cancer, 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 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.?
