Well well well …

“New York is on war footing. The President of the USA is passing through and demonstrations are threatening to drown Manhattan in chaos. Eric Packer, 28 years old millionaire, doesn’t care. No matter what happens, he will go get his haircut on the other side of town.

We’re not going to lie, whether we like David Cronenberg’s recent movies, we were seriously missing the filmmaker of Videodrome and Crash. Pop open the champagne because he’s back in every shot of Cosmopolis. Even though he’s adapting someone else’s work, the Canadian filmmaker recognized his young/offsprings in the novel of DeLillo.  The absurd and persistent odyssey of a young wolf in finance who parades colleagues, mistresses and doctors in his high-tech limo. When he reaches his destination, he might be left with nothing (the Japanese currency threatens his wallet, his wife is more and distant, it’s getting unbearable.) but the answer of the question that haunts him, without being able to articulate it: Can the one who possesses everything still desire anything else?

Cronenberg made sure that all his obsessions punctuate his route, whether they are intellectual (the search for ‘another’ reality) or carnal/physical (another scene that will make people talk, Packer learns that his prostate is asymmetrical). Enthroned in the back seat of his limousine Robert Pattinson reveals a deepness that gets more & more fascinating as his character gets closer to hitting rock bottom/gets closer to the abyss. The fear that surrenders his face in the last moments doesn’t belong only to this anti-hero that arrived at the point of no return, but it’s also the fear of an actor who tests his limits with an unsuspected bravery. With a feverish and decadent ride in Hell, Cosmopolis proves that he’s not done testing them.”

Translation thanks to Sonia and pattinsonlife

“In A World of Lies Only One Man Could See The Truth” – hahaha um that byline is kind of ironic for Hollywood.

 
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And this from Embankment Films website:

Cannes just got a whole lot more exciting – if that’s possible.

*GULP*

I have no words, other than baby – boy do I love what you’ve become.

Oh sweet lord the eyebrow pinch is BACK!

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I can’t for the life of me work out where  AltFilmGuide obtained the total figure of $11.52m for eight countries because my Box Office Mojo calculations total USD6,105,170 – did they really add in the Foreign total of $5,460,815 as well?  That’s the only explanation I can think of.  In any event, the reason I’m posting this is because of the second and third paragraphs of their article below – don’t mind at all that they did the comparison work not one bit – big thank you for that:

“Bel Ami‘s box-office performance has been “erratic” since the Robert Pattinson film opened in late Feb./early March, depending on the territory. More on that in the next paragraph. But let me say first that up to the end of April, Bel Ami had taken in $11.52m in eight countries. Not at all bad for a movie budgeted at $11.8m. [Maria:  Or £9 million as I mentioned before)

Robert Pattinson’s Twilight popularity surely helped the independently produced Bel Ami film version of Guy de Maupassant’s novel gross a solid $3.14m in Russia.  For comparison’s sake: Mirror Mirror, starring an established star like Julia Roberts and budgeted at $85m, collected $9.73m in that country. Bel Ami also earned a not inconsiderable $1.39m in Italy, where it’s one of the top 50 movies of 2012, and $1.14m in the United Kingdom, where it’s no. 50 on the UK box-office chart. At the other extreme, in Singapore and Slovakia the period comedy-drama scored, respectively, $10,791 and $21,033, according to Box Office Mojo.

Does that mean Pattinson and Twilight aren’t popular in those two countries? Not really. Instead, it could simply mean that the film’s Singapore and Slovakia distributors failed to raise awareness for their movie. That happens time and again, including in major markets. Also: bear in mind that according to Box Office Mojo (it’s unclear if figures have been updated), Brad Pitt’s Moneyball raked in only $400 more than Bel Ami in Slovakia."  [Maria:  It also doing better than The Lucky One and Ides of March which is far  more comparable since isn't Zefron and Ryan Gosling supposed to be Rob's competition?  Early days I know, but it's an indication right.]

I don’t care if I’m going against the grain – I think the movie is doing okay and it’s not long now until we see Aussie and US figures.

14 more sleeps not that I’m counting *cough*