Monday, October 28, 2013

Cosmopolis (2012)

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Year of first release: 2012
Director: David Cronenberg (The Fly, A History of Violence)
Actors: Robert Pattinson (Twilight), Juliette Binoche (The English Patient), Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti (John Dies at the End), Kevin Durand (Real Steel)
Country: CDN, F, P, I
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Conditions of visioning: 27.10.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A young billionnaire (Pattinson) crosses the city in a limousine, meeting the people in his life on the way.
Review: It pains me to give such a bad rating to a David Cronenberg movie but I really didn't get into it. The concept is interesting and there is nothing wrong with the acting of Pattinson (a good role to turn the Twilight page), but people are just talking, talking, talking... It was already maybe the case in Videodrome, A History of Violence or Eastern Promises, but it was interleaved with some action scenes and/or the music was excellent. In Cosmopolis the discussions are so weird and unrelated one with another that I quickly lost interest and kept on watching only for the quality of the direction.
I didn't like all this philosophical chit-chat. I didn't get the meaning of the movie. I thought it could be a dream because the movie is jumping from one topic to another with no link. Very dissapointing to me.
Rating: 3 /10

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