Cosmopolis free download HD movie online
release date: 25 May 2012
Countries: France, Canada, Portugal, Italy,
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon,
Genres: Drama,
Runtime: 108 minutes
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a
cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Cosmopolis is a 2012 drama film starring Robert Pattinson, directed by David Cronenberg. It is based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. On May 25, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, drawing mixed early critical reactions.The film is scheduled to have a limited release in the United States on August 17, 2012.
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Now David Cronenberg has brought out a movie version; he has adapted it himself and DeLillo gave the film a notable endorsement by showing up personally on the red carpet for its premiere last month at the Cannes film festival. While DeLillo is no Salingeresque recluse, he's not exactly enamoured of the flashbulbs either. Sadly, the resulting film is as heavy, unmanoeuvrable and preposterous as the stretch limo at its centre; a "day in the life" drama with no satisfying life. And DeLillo's highly charged language, when parcelled up into film dialogue, is cumbersome and self-conscious without the original speck of deadpan drollery. It is possible to read Cosmopolis as a premonition of the economic crash we now know all about, but really it looks like an exercise in zeitgeist-connoisseurship that appears obtuse, self-indulgent and fatally shallow.
Plot:
Billionaire Eric Packer (Pattinson) rides slowly across Manhattan in his limousine that he uses as his office while on his way to his preferred barber, even though there are traffic jams. They are caused by a visit of the president of the United States and by the funeral of Eric's favorite musician, whose music he plays in one of his two private elevators. He has recently married. In the car and elsewhere he has meetings with his wife, who does not want sex with him, to save energy she needs for her work. Instead he has sex with other women. In his car, while having a meeting, he has his doctor carry out his daily medical checkup; Eric worries about the doctor's finding that he has an asymmetrical prostate. After devastating currency speculation he kills his bodyguard and follows a path of further self-destruction, including visiting his potential murderer and shooting himself in his hand on purpose.
Cast:
Robert Pattinson as Eric Packer
Jay Baruchel as Shiner
Paul Giamatti as Benno Levin
Kevin Durand as Torval
Juliette Binoche as Didi Fancher, Eric's art consultant, with whom Eric has an affair
Samantha Morton as Vija Kinsky, Eric’s chief advisor
Sarah Gadon as Elise Shifrin
Mathieu Amalric as André Petrescu aka The Pastry Assassin
K'Naan as Brutha Fez, a rap artist
Emily Hampshire as Jane Melman, Eric's chief of finance
Patricia McKenzie as Kendra Hays, Eric's bodyguard, with whom Eric has an affair
Don DeLillo's 2003 novella Cosmopolis is about a wealthy and obscenely young Wall Street trader inching across Manhattan in a white stretch limo on a capricious mission to get a haircut. A minor DeLillo conceived during the economic good times, it's a boutique-luxury literary event whose chief luxury was being able to imagine disaster in personal terms so exotic and disorientating that it was almost indistinguishable from the dizzying era of success that went before.Now David Cronenberg has brought out a movie version; he has adapted it himself and DeLillo gave the film a notable endorsement by showing up personally on the red carpet for its premiere last month at the Cannes film festival. While DeLillo is no Salingeresque recluse, he's not exactly enamoured of the flashbulbs either. Sadly, the resulting film is as heavy, unmanoeuvrable and preposterous as the stretch limo at its centre; a "day in the life" drama with no satisfying life. And DeLillo's highly charged language, when parcelled up into film dialogue, is cumbersome and self-conscious without the original speck of deadpan drollery. It is possible to read Cosmopolis as a premonition of the economic crash we now know all about, but really it looks like an exercise in zeitgeist-connoisseurship that appears obtuse, self-indulgent and fatally shallow.