| ORIGINAL TITLE |
Cosmopolis |
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| DIRECTOR |
David Cronenberg |
| SCREENWRITER |
David Cronenberg (Novel: Don DeLillo) |
| COMPOSER |
Howard Shore |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Peter Suschitzky |
| CAST |
Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, Juliette Binoche, Kevin Durand, Emily Hampshire, Patricia McKenzie, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Abdul Ayoola, Gouchy Boy, George Touliatos, Philip Nozuka, K'Naan |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
Co-production Canada-France-Portugal-Italy; Prospero Pictures / Alfama Films |
| AWARDS |
2012: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection
2012: Sitges Film Festival: Official Selection |
| GENRE |
Drama | Psychological Drama. Road Movie. Late-2000s financial crisis |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close end. Eric Packer, a high finance golden boy, dives into a white limousine. While a visit from the President of the United States paralyses Manhattan, Eric Packer has one obsession: getting a haircut at his barber’s at the other end of the city. As the day goes by, chaos sets in, and he watches helplessly as his empire collapses. Also he is sure that someone is going to assassinate him. When? Where? He is about to live the most decisive 24 hours of his life. |
| PRO REVIEWS |
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"You don't go to a Cronenberg movie for comedy, but rather for something exciting, exotic, daring and precise: really, none of those things is present in this agonisingly self-conscious and meagre piece of work (...) Rating: ** (out of four)"
(Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian)
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"Airless and inert (...) this stillborn adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel will initially attract some Robert Pattinson fans but will be widely met with audience indifference" (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)
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"A weird, heady and entrancing portrait of individual alienation in a super-rich, corporate world (...) A psychosexual, more interior companion piece to films like 'Inside Job' and 'Margin Call' (...) Rating: *** (out of five)"
(Dave Calhoun: Time Out)
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"Applying his icy intelligente to Don DeLillo prescient 2003 novel, David Cronenberg turns a young Wall Street titan's daylong limo ride into a coolly corrosive allegory (...) Robert Pattinson's excellent performance reps an indispensable asset" (Justin Chang: Variety)
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"If you can get past the psychological density of the source material and the tabloid noise around the star , this mesmerizing mind-bender ought to prove that Robert Pattinson really can act and Director David Cronenberg never runs from a challenge (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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