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‘The Shrouds’: David Cronenberg’s haunting meditation on grief

David Cronenberg’s screenplays give the overwhelming impression of intelligent dialogue between interesting people with driving obsessions, and their smarts let them keep a practical, analytical distance from the perverse things that fascinate them. The Canadian director’s last film, 2022’s “Crimes of the Future,” made a meal out of the playful academic jousting in which Viggo