Since the Cosmopolis teaser just came out we thought we’d make a post to share your reactions to the teaser. So what did you think about the teaser? Are you excited to see Cosmopolis? Leave your thoughts and comments in the comments below!
After the rather staid costume drama of “A Dangerous Method,” a film that failed to embrace the kink promised in the premise of an sado-masochistic affair between Jung and a former patient, many started to wonder: had David Cronenberg gone soft? The filmmaker has been steadily moving into more mainstream territory, but generally managed to keep a little of the transgressiveness that made his name with films from “The Brood” to “Crash.” But with the Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender drama? Not so much.
Well it appears that that was only a short-term issue: the teaser trailer for Cronenberg’s next, the Don DeLillo adaptation “Cosmopolis,” has arrived, and it looks like classic Cronenberg stuff. Following a twentysomething billionaire, who fears he’s going to be murdered, as he travels through Manhattan in a limo on the worst traffic day in record, the film’s been getting more attention than the filmmaker’s used to, seeing as it stars “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson, who, for certain demographics, is one of the biggest hearthrobs to hit the big screen in a long time. But that attention doesn’t seem to have made Cronenberg water things down — the brief, French-subtitled clip (which seems a little reminiscent of “Enter The Void” in its neon-inflected marketing) has sex, violence, body horror and bizarre images.
The BDP2 teaser shown before screening of The Hunger Games! Low quality for now.
subtitles:
Bella: After 18 years of being out of the ordinary, I finally found that I could shine. Jacob: I didn’t expect you to seem so… you. Edward: It’s so beautiful. We’re the same temperature now.
After some confusion from Pathé (one of the biggest theater chains) about Bel Ami being removed from their release list we contacted Independant Films to ask them if and when Bel Ami will be released in the Netherlands. Their response:
Hi,
Bel Ami is going to premiere on April 5th in the Netherlands. It’s going to be in at least three theaters: Kijkhuis Leiden, Gigant Apeldoorn & Lantaarn Rotterdam. There are negotiations with a few more theaters at the moment.
So for now just 3 theaters where it will premiere: we hope more will follow!
Official Cosmopolis page says that the teaser will be online tomorrow!
And it is the official facebook page of the movie, since it’s linked on the Alfama Films website
ETA: It will be available online tomorrow morning on ALLOCINE and WAT_TV and It will be available both in French (with subtitles) and in English. Also, it will be longer than 10 seconds.
To those critics who see Cosmopolis as a “last-chance-saloon” opportunity for Robert Pattinson to prove himself, acclaimed director David Cronenberg recently gave them some choice soundbites to chew on.
With acutely polarized reviews of Bel Ami still arriving online daily, and likely to continue until after June 8, (the U.S release date recently announced by Magnolia Pictures for the Maupassant adapted period drama), many critics have taken a slash-and-burn approach to their assessment of the Brit actor. However, on a recent visit to Ontario’s famed Queens University, director Cronenberg added his formidable opinion to the ongoing debate about his latest leading man’s abilities.
The veteran director—creator of such provocative cinematic gems as Scanners, The Fly, A History of Violence, Dead Ringers, and more recently, A Dangerous Method—directed Pattinson in the forthcoming Cosmopolis. Based on Don Delillo’s dark novel about a young billionaire’s eventful limo journey into the underbelly of Manhattan, the film showcases the actor in nearly every scene. Co-stars Paul Giamatti and Mathieu Almaric say Pattinson is good in the film. Actually, make that great. And they’re not alone. Cronenberg—unsurprisingly, since he personally cast Pattinson—agrees.
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