film details
Cosmopolis
1hr 48mins
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Sarah Gadon, Samantha Morton
Directed by: David Cronenberg
The plot: Twenty-something billionaire Eric Packer has made his fortune by playing the financial markets and stabbing his rivals in the back. He travels across Manhattan in a stretched limousine, irritated that a Presidential motorcade has brought New York's traffic to a standstill. He wiles away a few minutes by engaging in sex with his employee, Didi Fancher, before meeting his wife Elise, who is well aware of Eric's adulterous escapades.
what the others say
Guardian
"Cosmopolis, praise be, is flat-out marvellous, a 21st-century American horror story, haunted by 'the glow of cyber-capitalism'."
Empire
"It goes without saying that it is weird, but even from the director of eXistenZ and Videodrome it is bizarre, with the mannered, affected performances of the former and the outsider characters of the latter."
Variety
"An eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, Cosmopolis probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves."
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