{"id":621227,"date":"2024-05-21T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-cronenbergs-grief-movie-verges-on-self-parody\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:44:00","slug":"watch-cronenbergs-grief-movie-verges-on-self-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cronenbergs-grief-movie-verges-on-self-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cronenberg&#8217;s Grief Movie Verges on Self-Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f13c12813e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f13c12813e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cronenbergs-grief-movie-verges-on-self-parody\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Cronenbergs_Grief_Movie_Verges_on_Self-Parody%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Cronenberg&#8217;s Grief Movie Verges on Self-Parody&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cronenbergs-grief-movie-verges-on-self-parody\/#%E2%80%9CCronenbergs_Grief_Movie_Verges_on_Self-Parody%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Cronenberg&#8217;s Grief Movie Verges on Self-Parody&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Cronenbergs_Grief_Movie_Verges_on_Self-Parody%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Cronenberg&#8217;s Grief Movie Verges on Self-Parody&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCronenbergs_Grief_Movie_Verges_on_Self-Parody%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Cronenberg&#8217;s Grief Movie Verges on Self-Parody&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cHow dark do you want to go?\u201d The man asking that is named Karsh (Vincent Cassel), and he\u2019s seated in a minimalist art-chic restaurant having lunch with a blind date (though as she points out, how blind can a date be in the age of Google?). The one who\u2019s really asking the question, though, is David Cronenberg, writer-director of \u201cThe Shrouds.\u201d He\u2019s been asking that question \u2014 to audiences \u2014 for his entire career, and to him the answer has always been the same: The darker the better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet Cronenberg has a special brand of dark. In \u201cThe Shrouds,\u201d Karsh is a businessman who produces industrial videos, with a sleek Toronto apartment that looks out at the CN Tower, but he\u2019s also a co-owner of the restaurant they\u2019re sitting in, and the purveyor of what\u2019s in the garden next to it: a cemetery where the gravestones are technological devices, and the corpses are draped in futuristic shrouds that allow you to peer into the coffin below and see how your dear departed loved one is\u2026rotting. Karsh\u2019s wife, who died of cancer, is buried under one of those stones. Using the shroud-cam, he likes to stare, close up, at her corpse, and to imagine that he\u2019s in the coffin along with her, snuggling. How dark do you want to go?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cronenberg\u2019s own second wife, Carolyn Zeifman, died in 2017 (they\u2019d been married since 1979), and he has owned up to how much \u201cThe Shrouds\u201d is a personal film for him. As Karsh, the French actor Vincent Cassel has his hair styled in a whitish-gray pompadour that echoes Cronenberg\u2019s swept-back mane, though one doesn\u2019t necessarily want to overstate what that means. If Cronenberg had wanted to make Karsh his total surrogate, he might have given him glasses, or might not have cast the sly European Cassel to play a version of the menschy Canadian Cronenberg. Cassel looks enough like Cronenberg, but in \u201cThe Shrouds\u201d his aura is totally different. He\u2019s like the Boris Karloff of Eurotrash death fetishism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cronenberg has long been the queasy king of body horror, a genre he essentially invented. You could say that a lot of horror films, even old studio-system monster <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, have t<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed into body horror (think of the traumatized transformation scenes in \u201cThe Wolfman\u201d). But the Cronenberg touch isn\u2019t just that he\u2019s more explicit. It\u2019s that he always makes horror feel like something <em>medical<\/em>. His thrillers were about parasites that came from within, about demons that took the form of cancer, about a man\u2019s DNA merging with that of a fly. (\u201cVideodrome\u201d was about a man merging with a VCR, but let\u2019s leave that aside.) After 20 years of this stuff, even Cronenberg seemed like he\u2019d had enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Starting in the \u201990s, his films veered off in a dozen different directions. He made \u201cNaked Lunch\u201d\u2026and \u201cM. Butterfly\u201d\u2026and \u201cA History of Violence\u201d\u2026and \u201cEastern Promises\u201d\u2026and \u201cA Dangerous Method\u201d\u2026and \u201cCosmopolis\u201d\u2026as well as a movie that was better than all of them: the insidious psychological puzzle thriller \u201cSpider.\u201d And though moments in those films were touched by Cronenberg\u2019s trademark bio-trauma, with the exception of \u201cCrash\u201d he more or less stayed away from body horror for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But now he\u2019s returned to it with an icky vengeance. \u201cCrimes of the Future,\u201d his out-there psychodrama from two years ago, borrowed the title of Cronenberg\u2019s 1970 experimental feature (basically a stasis movie about people lying around leaking fluids out of their mouths), and with its tale of a future in which people grow organs, and the hero turns the surgical harvesting of his own organs into a species of performance art, it aimed to give audiences a Full Cronenberg jolt. \u201cCrimes of the Future\u201d certainly wasn\u2019t boring, but there was something weirdly academic about it. It was a body-horror movie that kept growing new \u201cideas,\u201d a fantasy that wore its metaphors on its operating gown. When I reviewed it out of Cannes, I had very mixed feelings, and I think that\u2019s where most of the world landed. (The film grossed a worldwide total of $4.5 million.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But with \u201cThe Shrouds,\u201d Cronenberg is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ling down on body horror. He\u2019s 81 now, and this may be his way of saying that he\u2019s not going to go gentle into that good night. He wants to rev things up with a squishy bang. I wish I could say the result was powerful, but the strange conundrum of Cronenberg\u2019s recent movies is that the more obsessed he becomes with the body, the more he seems to lead from the head. \u201cThe Shrouds\u201d could almost be a \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d parody of Cronenberg. The movie is about love and death and cancer and conspiracy and hallucinations and God knows what else. Every time it adds a new element, the film seems to be asking, \u201cHow dark do you want to go?\u201d But is this a drama or a contest?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Karsh started GraveTech, his futuristic voyeuristic gravestone company, out of a desire to remain with his wife. He says, \u201cIt has drained away that fluid of grief that was drowning me.\u201d But who, if I may ask, does Cronenberg think is going to identify with that? Maybe the same people who watched \u201cCrash\u201d and thought that being maimed in car accidents is sexy. The trouble with these ideas isn\u2019t that they\u2019re too extreme \u2014 it\u2019s that they\u2019re borderline absurd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But Cronenberg is a gifted pathologist of fantasy who goes so far with his ideas that he creates a world out of them. Are the polyps growing on Karsh\u2019s wife\u2019s bones some strange sort of post-death cancer \u2014 or are they tracking devices? When a dozen of the gravestones are desecrated, a corporate agenda may be at work. Guy Pearce is the miserable, disheveled hacker-geek ex-husband of Karsh\u2019s late wife\u2019s sister, and he brings the movie a note of paranoia that jacks up the perversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film\u2019s co-star, Diane Kruger, plays several roles, notably Karsh\u2019s late wife (seen in flashback) and her snappish veterinarian-turned-dog-groomer sister. They\u2019re both women of force, and Kruger allows herself to go all the way with Cronenberg\u2019s conceits, letting her nudity be used as a kind of canvas on which he can scrawl his drama of damage. There\u2019s another character, Soo-Min (Sandrine Holt), who becomes fused in Karsh\u2019s imagination with his wife, as if the film were trying to be \u201cPersona\u201d crossed with \u201cThe Brain That Wouldn\u2019t Die.\u201d As \u201cThe Shrouds\u201d goes on, it becomes more earnest and more nutty. I think Cronenberg thinks he\u2019s making movies that audiences will experience as feature-length versions of his own dreams. Here\u2019s the difference: When you\u2019re in a dream, you believe what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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