Thursday, October 17, 2013

Cosmopolis - 2012 - 4 Stars

Actors:  Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon
Director:  David Cronenberg

Cosmopolis is an ideas movie, so even though it has way too many ideas, I love it anyway.  Featuring Pattinson as a brooding financial wunderkind eking through Manhattan traffic in his limousine, the film manages to be visually interesting and does not induce claustrophobia.  I imagine the novel's ideas are more fully fleshed out, but as an 100 minute discourse on our techno-dystopia and how the whims of a few affect the bottom lines of many, you can't do much worse.  I also have an affinity for films who suggest infinities outside of themselves - this one sprawls out in all directions.

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