Grief-stricken after the loss of his wife, a renowned businessman develops a groundbreaking and highly controversial technology that allows the living to observe their departed in their burial shrouds. But when several graves, including his wife’s, are suddenly desecrated, he embarks on a relentless search for those responsible. In this quietly unsettling thriller, David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) returns with a piercing meditation on loss and the digital afterlife, exploring themes that have long defined his visionary work.

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‘Explo­rations of grief on film are ten a pen­ny and so often lean on maudlin sen­ti­ment to achieve their intend­ed goal. The Shrouds offers some­thing that’s at once more nuanced, more com­plex and more rad­i­cal’
★★★★★
David Jenkins, Little White Lies