Relaxed Screening + Discussion: The Shrouds
15 150 mins
15 150 mins
To celebrate Disability Pride Month, join us for a relaxed screening of David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, with an introduction from Picturehouse’s Hope Hopkinson and a friendly, informal post-film discussion group about the film’s themes of disability, grief and body image.
Please note: these screenings will have no ads or trailers, so make sure to arrive with plenty of time!
Relaxed screenings are designed to make cinema-going easier for those needing additional support, including neurodivergent audiences and those living with dementia.
Find out more about our relaxed screenings.
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) 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 (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—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.