Acclaimed director David Cronenberg has unveiled his newest work at the annual Cannes Film Festival. His film, The Shrouds, took on a different form of inspiration, and the audience reacted warmly to its story and themes. 

The film follows an inventor who has to track down a group of vandals who leave a memorial for his recently deceased wife in ruins. The monument was created by him, providing a real-time simulation of the deceased’s body decomposing. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that The Shrouds was inspired by the loss of Cronenberg’s wife Carolyn Cronenberg. 

Carolyn Cronenberg even had some credits of her own. Among other projects, she directed and produced Too Commercial For Cannes, a documentary short about the day-to-day production of Cronenberg’s 2005 film A History Of Violence. 

Hollywood Reporter even noted that Cronenberg resembles the main character, played by Vincent Cassel, specifically with the haircut shared between the two. 

Many of Cronenberg’s other films have dealt with real-world issues through fantastical means, such as 1986’s The Fly, in which a scientist slowly loses his humanity after merging with a common housefly. 

The Cannes premiere also saw a standing ovation for the film upon its conclusion. 

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