Cosmopolis (film)
Cosmopolis is a Canadian - French film drama of David Cronenberg in the year 2012 . The film with Robert Pattinson in the lead role was based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo .
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cosmopolis |
| Original title | Cosmopolis |
| Country of production |
Canada France Portugal Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| script | David Cronenberg |
| production |
Paulo Branco Martin Katz |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Peter Suschitzky |
| cut | Ronald Sanders |
| occupation | |
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action
Billionaire Eric Packer (Pattinson), who works in asset management , drives his stretch limousine across Manhattan to get his hair cut. Due to the presence of the president and an anti-capitalist demonstration in the city, he is only moving at walking pace. On the way, various of his advisors and a doctor get in and out of his car, he briefly meets his wife several times and has casual sex with an art agent and a bodyguard. If he speculates wrongly with the Chinese yuan , Packer will lose a large part of his fortune. Despite or because of an attack on his life that has been announced, Packer shoots his bodyguard and, after having his hair cut, voluntarily goes to the building where the alleged assassin is waiting for him. He turns out to be Benno Levin, a former employee of Packer, who wants to give his desolate life "meaning" again by murdering his former employer. Packer makes no move to escape or fight back from Levin and, on the contrary, deliberately shoots himself through his hand with his revolver. The film ends when Levin points his gun at Packer.
background
Cronenberg wrote the screenplay for the film within six days before the shooting of his film Eine dark Desire (2011). With a few deletions, his adaptation sticks closely to the novel. The deleted passages include the exposure in Packer's high-rise complex, an introduction by the assassin Benny Levin in the first and second halves of the book (this only appears in the film in the finale) and a chapter in which Packer appears his wife among the extras the streets of Manhattan's filmed film. While Packer's shooting is explicitly described in the book, it is only hinted at in the film. The currency that Packer speculates with is not the Chinese yuan in the novel, but the Japanese yen .
Colin Farrell was originally intended for the role of Eric Packer, but had to cancel due to scheduling reasons.
Cronenberg based the visual design of the title sequence on the paintings by Jackson Pollock . The credits include works by Mark Rothko , whose posthumously opened “Rothko Chapel”, the film character Eric Packer, wants to purchase.
Cosmopolis premiered on May 25, 2012 in Cannes and opened in German cinemas on July 5, 2012 .
Reviews
“Cronenberg tells the story based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo with an emphatically artificial indifference, which on the one hand fits perfectly with the habitus of the false hero, and on the other hand makes it difficult to find anything gripping in this film. The closer he gets to Eric Packer and tries to fathom the depths of his soul, the clearer it becomes that there is nothing there to fathom. […] Robert Pattinson […] limits himself to looking past his surroundings with a half-absent, somewhat puzzled look. […] Don DeLillo published his novel "Cosmopolis" in 2003, as a bitter comment on the collapsing new economy hype. In today's Occupy times, it looks like a sad prophecy that has found its fulfillment. But Cronenberg's film only looks like a pale portrait of a boring man whose time has long since passed. "
“The unsuccessful film adaptation of a successful book [...] The dialogues and especially the inner monologues of Cosmopolis are a pleasure to read. In the cinema they seem tiring in the long run. Often there is not much left of DeLillo's delightful mind games and jumps in thought than cynicism. [...] The biggest problem remains the main actor. His character can be seen in every scene. So he has to carry the film and drive it forward. Pattinson fails because of that. "
“Congenial adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel, whose literary imagery is transferred into an atmospheric aseptic chamber play. The spaceship-like limousine becomes the central metaphor for the decline of the 'i-economy'. A cool, reflective, yet very sensual parable about an egoistic Midas figure who has lost himself in her virtual world. On a meta-level, the rituals of 'capitalism as religion' carried by the spirit of self-destruction are dissected. "
literature
- Don DeLillo: Cosmopolis. EA: Scribner, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0743244244
- Don DeLillo: Cosmopolis. EA: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3462033083
Web links
- Cosmopolis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cosmopolis at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official page for the film
- Review in the taz
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Cosmopolis in the online directory of the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry .
- ↑ a b Interview with David Cronenberg in the taz from July 5, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Robert Pattinson Replaces Colin Farrell In Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis' , article by Daniel Hubschman on Hollywood.com of January 6, 2011, accessed July 17, 2012.
- ^ Cosmopolis in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b Review on Spiegel Online from July 4, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ^ Review of Die Zeit Online from May 26, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Cosmopolis in the Lexicon of International Film on zweiausendeins.de