David Cronenberg’s most recent film “The Shrouds” wrapped its four-week shoot in mid-June, the film having to switch out its leading lady who was originally Lea Seydoux who was replaced by Diane Kruger.
The story follows Karsh (Vincent Cassel), an innovative businessman and grieving widower who builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
He builds a cemetery where visitors can watch the bodies of their loved ones decompose. He soon re-evaluates his invention when people begin to vandalize the graves, including that of his wife.
Kruger recently appeared as a guest of honor at the Zurich Film Festival and spoke (via Variety) about the film. She revealed she actually has three roles in the movie.
She also says the movie will potentially be the most personal film of Cronenberg’s career as the 2017 passing of the filmmaker’s wife, film editor Carolyn Zeifman, weighs on the film’s subject matter:
“We just finished filming it. I think it might be his most personal film, because it talks about him and the passing of his wife. I was very emotional making it, because I knew it was so close to him and he was a little bit detached because of it. I could feel him being so vulnerable. I hope it’s going to be great.”
Zeifman was Cronenberg’s second wife, his first marriage to Margaret Hindson back in the 1970s last seven years and it served as inspiration for his early 1979 film “The Brood”.
Guy Pearce, Diane Kruger, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Matt Willis, and Steve Switzman co-star in “The Shrouds” which will likely have a festival debut next year.
Cronenberg will next be seen on screens early next year in the final season of “Star Trek: Discovery” reprising his recurring role of Dr. Kovich.
Source: Variety
