David Cronenberg is back.
After eight years of absence, the 79-year-old director is preparing to present his latest feature film at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival,
Les Crimes du futur
.
A political thriller that deals with particular organic technologies, which features actors Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.
It would seem that this theme matters to him, since this return to the screen was also accompanied by a new announcement, that of an upcoming film with a murky script,
The Shrouds
, which Vincent Cassel, engaged in the main role, will carry.
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The emblematic actor of the film
La Haine
(1995), will play Karsh, a businessman recently widowed, who to mourn has decided to create a device to observe in real time the decomposition of the corpses inside. funeral shrouds.
This tool, which is also about to register a breakthrough in this new market, is ransacked by strangers.
A manhunt then begins during which Karsh will question his business and his loyalty to the memory of his late wife.
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David Cronenberg and Vincent Cassel haven't worked together for over eleven years.
Their latest collaboration being the film
A Dangerous Method
, released in 2011, starring Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley.
The two men had also worked together four years earlier on the set of the feature film
The Promises of the Shadow
(2007), with among others Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen, one of the actors who shot the most with the sexagenarian Canadian, which has several major films to its credit, such as
La Mouche
(1986) and
A History of Violence
(2005).
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The Shrouds
(
Les Linceuls
) will also be an opportunity for David Cronenberg to work with renowned producers, such as Saïd Ben Saïd of SPB Productions, who has already worked on the films
Elle
(2016) and
Benedetta
(2021) by Paul Verhoeven.
He has already spoken about this new project in the columns of
Variety
:
“We are excited by this journey into the innovative world of the unique imagination of David Cronenberg.
His ability to write clever and unconventional scripts and then translate them into unique on-screen experiences makes him a unique voice in cinema."
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But the Canadian director will especially find Martin Katz and Michel Merkt, two producers with whom he has already worked on his feature film
Maps to the Stars
(2014), which stars Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson.
After this film, the scenario writer withdrew eight years from the Hollywood sets.
Time to find, apparently, the inspiration.