David Cronenberg Says Cannes Audiences “Didn’t Get” ‘The Shrouds’ Because They Were Too Afraid To Laugh While Watching A Film About Grief
David Cronenberg certainly has enough experience to know when an audience is not connecting with a film.New York Film Festival Plays Long Game With Supersized Documentaries Case in point: last May’s world premiere in Cannes of The Shrouds, the 81-year-old Cronenberg’s latest outing as writer-director. “They didn’t get the movie, partly because of the language and cultural things and the fact that maybe people felt if they laughed it was being disrespectful or something,” he said. “It’s the pressure of the Cannes Film Festival. We didn’t get the kind of laughs that I knew we would get, let’s say, at the...
David Cronenberg Talks Response to ‘The Shrouds’ at Cannes: ‘They Didn’t Get the Movie’
While many filmmakers throughout the last century have come to view entry into the Cannes Film Festival as the pinnacle of talent — a forum where the best of the best can unveil their work on a global scale — 81 year-old Canadian horror master David Cronenberg understands that it’s not without its tradeoffs. Premiering his latest project, “The Shrouds,” there back in May, Cronenberg was met with a relatively tepid response (though our own review listed it as a Critic’s Pick). As he continued to screen the film at TIFF in his home country and now in the U.S....
R-Rated Dystopian Sci-Fi Horror On Hulu Gives Master Filmmaker Free Rein
The essential problem with most dystopian films is that their predictions for the future seem overly bleak and generally unrelatable for the average audience member. However, one horror veteran recently took a crack at the genre, and he created something that was so chilling because it perfectly mirrors our current societal decline, including parasocial relationships with bizarre performers. That film is David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, and you can stream it on Hulu if you want a dark glimpse of where our own history is slowly (and maddeningly) taking us.