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The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief
Cannes film festival Elaborate necrophiliac meditation on loss and longing stars Vincent Cassel as an oncologist who has founded a restaurant with a hi-tech cemetery attachedDavid Cronenberg’s new film is a contorted sphinx without a secret, an eroticised necrophiliac meditation on grief, longing and loss that returns this director to his now very familiar Ballardian fetishes. It’s intriguing and exhausting: a quasi-murder mystery and doppelganger sex drama combined with a sci-fi conspiracy...
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David Cronenberg's new grief-laden film The Shrouds gets a subdued 3.5 minute standing ovation after premiering at Cannes Film Festival
Director David Cronenberg returned to the south of France to premiere his new film The Shrouds, earning a subdued 3.5 minute standing ovation from the audience.
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David Cronenberg thinks we should both fear and welcome AI
AI could truly never make The Fly or Videodrome, but David Cronenberg still envisions a world in which the technology blots out Hollywood entirely. “You can imagine a screenwriter sitting there, writing the movie, and if that person can write it in enough detail, the movie will appear,” the legendary horror director said of his vision for the future at a Cannes press conference today (via Deadline). Instead of screenwriters or directors, these people will be called “prompters,” responsible only...