David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” began as a seed planted by the death of his wife Carolyn, and grew into the film as it premiered at Cannes on Monday. “I stopped filmmaking for quite a while after that, for five or six years,” the veteran director explained at a Cannes press conference on Tuesday, “and then I felt the impulse to tell a story about it.”
“It’s not realistic, not autobiography, but somehow my experience of her death and my loss, with some other considerations… in that sense, it is my most autobiographical film,” he continued.
The movie, which was originally conceived as a 10-episode limited series for Netflix, was easy to stitch up.