Well made film
DeLillo is not an easy writer to translate to screen but Cronenberg succeeds and actually improving the understanding of the source material.
I don't think the US audience will be interested in it.
I loved the dialog. The whole movie was like a long poem. It's not for everyone, but they didn't set out to make a commercial film.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/cover-story/1918862 91.html
Best Adapted Screenplay
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What should have won overall: David Cronenberg’s script for Cosmopolis makes great a so-so Don DeLillo novel, although its real power emerged when the actors came to speak their lines. Who knew Robert Pattinson was put on earth to deliver overly-stylized DeLillo dialogue?
Best Actor
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Who should have won overall: As much as I want to say Denis Lavant, for his literally shape-shifting work in Holy Motors, no performance was as exciting as Tim Heidecker’s raging wealthy dickhead routine in The Comedy. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Robert Pattinson wuz robbed—for Cosmopolis, not Breaking Dawn 2.
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JenF ‏@MediaSageJen
Congrats to Cronenberg and Pattinson on the excellent review in Rolling Stone #Cosmopolis
nictate ‏@nictate
COSMOPOLIS: Best screenplay of the year. A pretty damn good movie too. Pattinson really pulled it off. Cronenberg knocked it out of the park
Sam Zimmerman ‏@samdzimmerman
Greatly dug COSMOPOLIS! A rough, absurdist look at an absurd climate. Excited to see again and dig
David Krasner ‏@KrasnerDavid
Can you think of another A-list actor who would agree to be filmed getting an anal exam? No Tom Cruise jokes please. #COSMOPOLIS
David Krasner ‏@KrasnerDavid
Pattinson's Oscar clip should be his proctology exam in the new and very interesting film Cosmopolis. Sexy sexy man.
Ella ‏@ohmy50shades
Colin Farrell on Jonathan Ross - could not see him in Cosmopolis at all!
Jillio ‏@Jillio
@mirk79 I'd watch Cronenberg-directed dirt licking contest but need your professional opinion re Cosmopolis: big screen must or wait on DVD?
http://www.cinemablographer.com/2012/06/films-of-2012-best-so-far.html
''Films of 2012: The Best So Far'' list
''I haven’t seen so much flack for a positive review since Moneyball. Alas, though, Cosmopolis is a perfect conversation piece. It gets people talking in classic Cronenberg style, with all sorts of big ideas and trippy visual colliding with an excess of Hollywood stars and an assault of Canadian content. And it all takes place in a city called New York that looks exactly like Toronto. Classic Cronenberg, indeed!''