First Cosmopolis Review Is In
Well well well …
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“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
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Shirl
THIS! Is starting to look exciting!
Carmel
I just can’t fucking wait! I can’t tell you the excitment I feel for this film. It is like a wound up spring that finally is getting released. DC has unleashed Rob on the world! Thank you
Vicky
WOW!!!! So excited to be along for this ride!!!!!!
Sare
Great review for the movie. Wish they said more about Robs performance
Lisa
What a fabulous review! OMG I can’t wait for this movie to be released! I’m so excited; I’ll be jumping up and down in my seat for the next several months, I just know it!
Sue
@Carmel, you said it brilliantly. God we are in for an awesome ride with this man!
liz
Well Well well indeed.
How wonderful!
Oh and @Sare, your gravatar – nearly fell off my chair!
Elane
It’s great to see it in print even though we all know that Rob will be EPIC as ERIC and EROTIC to boot – thank you DC and Maria for the post 😉