2012 Directed by David Cronenberg
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Robert Pattinson Juliette Binoche Sarah Gadon Paul Giamatti Samantha Morton Jay Baruchel Kevin Durand Mathieu Amalric Patricia McKenzie Emily Hampshire George Touliatos Abdul Ayoola Jadyn Wong David Schaap Philip Nozuka Gouchy Boy Željko Kecojević Bob Bainborough Warren Chow Ryan Kelly Nadeem Umar-Khitab K'Naan John Batkis Saad Siddiqui Anna Hardwick Milton Barnes Inessa Frantowski Albert Gomez Jonathan Seinen
Paulo Branco Edouard Carmignac Walter Gasparovic Martin Katz Gregoire Melin Renee Tab Melissa Girotti
France 2 Cinéma Téléfilm Canada Rai Cinema Prospero Pictures Alfama Films Canal+ Jouror Productions Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) Leopardo Filmes Talandracas
Gosh, where do I begin.... Cosmopolis is a mess. A big, beautiful and very intelligent mess. It is a very difficult film to come to terms with, especially because Cronenberg seems intent on the viewer not liking it at all. He keeps you at a distance and gives you a cold and analytical commentary on the state of the world as we know it. And it works. Well, sort of.
Let's start with the obvious. Pattinson is fine. He has talent and proves himself to be a very capable actor. The character he plays is the owner of a big company that deals with the world of finance. What they do exactly is never clear, but they are definitely big…
I had high hopes for Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis yet I left disappointed ... I think. I’m unsure of my opinion because it is an enigmatic film - it is dense, different and very difficult. Having never read Don DeLillo’s novel I was unsure quite what to expect but I still wasn’t quite expecting this. It is a postmodern Odyssey and a story for and about our times filtered through the eyes of a blank and privileged dick. Despite being confined to a limo that always slowly crawls forward it is a story that is static to the point of being inert. It is an episodic series of verbose conversations that are flatly expressed and stretched out to a near maddening degree.…
— how old are you?
— 41.
— a prime number.
— but not an interesting one.
but n² + n + 41 is the most fecund prime-generating quadratic of its magnitude, and this is the most fecund film of its generation.
(‘i am your chief of theory.’)
it’s also my favourite batman movie.
‘you wanted me to be a helpless robot soldier, and all i could be was helpless.’
with every rewatch it gets closer to being my favourite of all.
An exhausting dialogue-driven film that's not only pretentious, but ends up going absolutely nowhere. Not for me, apparently. Pattinson was pretty good though.
Turned this off after 45 minutes to do something more enjoyable, like sit in a bathtub full of hard boiled shit.
One of the only truly discomforting films I've ever seen, Cosmopolis forces itself upon you in such a way as to assert not only narrative but experiential dominance: this film is terrifying because it drops us into a world which is complete, sane, a world in which everything makes sense - but only because things are meaningless.
The inference of many that not only is Cosmopolis one of Cronenberg's weakest but also one of the weakest films ever made is absurd to me because every individual 'offputting' facet of the film (the unsubtle greenscreen, Pattinson's bizarre anti-realist performance) so clearly and directly contributes to the overall vision of the piece that there is no doubting the films' manifesto (for lack…
Ritratto di un futuro mondo e dell'economia etica e materiale post moderna che lo sta generando. Materia perfetta per Cronenberg, però ho la netta sensazione che il tutto funzioni meglio in letteratura che al cinema. Il regista canadese ce la mette tutta raggiungendo anche alte vette però il film risulta forse troppo sconnesso anche se ad una profonda analisi il senso nichilista è ampiamente demarcato nelle battutte finali. Sicuramanete non il peggiore di Cronemberg ma sperimentalmente il più rischioso.
The issue with Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis' is that it has too many big words that are used in long strands of symbolic cluster-fuck-garbage-speak that altogether my little brain just couldn't understand. Either this is prentious word vomit, or I am too young/inexperienced/uneducated or just downright too stupid to comprehend any of this; and I think it's the later. Ultimately, 'Cosmopolis' did keep my attention- somehow? God knows how? But it did... *Shrugs*
Too clinical and cold to be enthralling, the dialogue is often hard to consume or even think people talk like it. Trying to make the one percent sympathetic when they are devoid of feeling is wasted effort. Cronenberg isn't treading new ground and somehow this felt like a back step for his generally excellent resume.
At the same time the best and the worst quality of the film is that I could buy every interpretation and valuation from awful to the greatest thing ever made. But it doesn't really say much to me personally nor does it really tell anything about what this film really is.
"I wanted you to save me."
This is a fucking weird movie! A film with great depth and pathos. The kind of film that's meaning lingers on your mind, that is frantically trying to decipher it. I've never seen Pattinson better, he isn't incredible here, by any means, but he definitely wanted to make a statement post Twilight.
This film really kicks into gear when the great Paul Giamatti enters. That final scene is terrific! David Cronnenberg is a true autuer for making surreal situations feel so human. Touching on a lot of the issues we have as a society in such an obscure way.
This is a really good film. Who knows... maybe after a couple more watches... I might find it great.
— how old are you?
— 41.
— a prime number.
— but not an interesting one.
but n² + n + 41 is the most fecund prime-generating quadratic of its magnitude, and this is the most fecund film of its generation.
(‘i am your chief of theory.’)
it’s also my favourite batman movie.
‘you wanted me to be a helpless robot soldier, and all i could be was helpless.’
with every rewatch it gets closer to being my favourite of all.
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