Cosmopolis (2012)
Country: CAN/FR/PORT/IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Mathieu Amalric, Sarah Gadon
Synopsis:
During a day of market volatility, a presidential visit and a credible threat against his own life, a multi-billionaire makes his way in his stretch limousine across New York City in order to get a haircut from his father's barber. Gradually, the world he has helped create, and his own sanity, start to unravel.
Review:
Initially beguiling, but ultimately confounding, odyssey through the mind of one who has all but divorced himself from everyday reality, full of ruminations on the abstractions of market forces and their mathematical and philosophical ramifications that will no doubt make more sense to those who have read the book. Like Videodrome, it follows a remorseless downward spiral until it disappears up its own orifice. Cronenberg once again shows himself adept at deploying the mise-en-scène required to concretise his metaphorical musings, but on this occasion our companion is an expressionless lump. This is no doubt the point, and Pattinson does (ironically) broaden his range in the part, but by the time of the fifteen-minute final scene with Giamatti we are past caring.
Country: CAN/FR/PORT/IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Mathieu Amalric, Sarah Gadon
Synopsis:
During a day of market volatility, a presidential visit and a credible threat against his own life, a multi-billionaire makes his way in his stretch limousine across New York City in order to get a haircut from his father's barber. Gradually, the world he has helped create, and his own sanity, start to unravel.
Review:
Initially beguiling, but ultimately confounding, odyssey through the mind of one who has all but divorced himself from everyday reality, full of ruminations on the abstractions of market forces and their mathematical and philosophical ramifications that will no doubt make more sense to those who have read the book. Like Videodrome, it follows a remorseless downward spiral until it disappears up its own orifice. Cronenberg once again shows himself adept at deploying the mise-en-scène required to concretise his metaphorical musings, but on this occasion our companion is an expressionless lump. This is no doubt the point, and Pattinson does (ironically) broaden his range in the part, but by the time of the fifteen-minute final scene with Giamatti we are past caring.
Country: CAN/FR/PORT/IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Mathieu Amalric, Sarah Gadon
Synopsis:
During a day of market volatility, a presidential visit and a credible threat against his own life, a multi-billionaire makes his way in his stretch limousine across New York City in order to get a haircut from his father's barber. Gradually, the world he has helped create, and his own sanity, start to unravel.
Review:
Initially beguiling, but ultimately confounding, odyssey through the mind of one who has all but divorced himself from everyday reality, full of ruminations on the abstractions of market forces and their mathematical and philosophical ramifications that will no doubt make more sense to those who have read the book. Like Videodrome, it follows a remorseless downward spiral until it disappears up its own orifice. Cronenberg once again shows himself adept at deploying the mise-en-scène required to concretise his metaphorical musings, but on this occasion our companion is an expressionless lump. This is no doubt the point, and Pattinson does (ironically) broaden his range in the part, but by the time of the fifteen-minute final scene with Giamatti we are past caring.