Maps To The Stars ROUNDUP: Robert Pattinson leaving the premiere, David Michôd in attendance, reviews calling Rob a proper actor & more!

Maps To The Stars ROUNDUP: Robert Pattinson leaving the premiere, David Michôd in attendance, reviews calling Rob a proper actor & more!

Before we get to Rob leaving, let's see him coming. ;)



Ray of sunshine <3



Can I feel too, Rob?? This so needs a caption. LOL



Such sweetness



There are over 100 new pics of Rob at the premiere under the cut but here's a shot of Rob and Julianne leaving the premiere. Rob is trying to KILL the photographer.



HQs of Rob leaving MTTS premiere

        

Fandom also spotted The Rover's David Michôd at the Maps To The Stars premiere in this picture (after the screening) we posted earlier! Bottom right, wearing his gray glasses in a profile shot.



It looks like Mia even points him out to Rob before they sit down.


There was some holdover stuff from the press conference earlier...a few pics and videos




 

Rob is on after the Foxcatcher crew, after 1:20 ("How does it feel to be in Cannes?" "Good." LOL)


Au plus près de Robert Pattinson et Channing... by nice-matin



And a few more review snippets from the press screening May 18th.

The Independent:

Pattinson (in his second film with Cronenberg after Cosmopolis) brings a sly humour to his role as the young actor on the make, genial but as much on the make as anyone else....This is high class soap opera with a cerebral twist. Its sudden shifts in tone are disconcerting but it is funny, ghoulish and has plenty of satirical bite.

Movie City News:

Robert Pattinson, Cronenberg’s oddly appropriate muse, no longer needs to prove his authenticity as a proper actor. Finally, we need to see more of Evan Bird, witnessed here in his breakout role as a hilarious asshole narcissist. To be sure, Cronenberg’s navigation combined with Wagner’s pen (“it’s a fucking art film!”) make Maps to the Stars both a standout of Cannes 2014, and the best film the director has made since 2005.

Way Too Indie:

...great fun, and an invigorating addition to Cronenberg’s offbeat filmography.

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Over 100 more pictures from the premiere under the cut!

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Media Reactions to Cannes Press Screening of Maps To The Stars - "Jerome winningly played by Robert Pattinson"

Media Reactions to Cannes Press Screening of Maps To The Stars - "Jerome winningly played by Robert Pattinson"

Guys.....it's gooooooooooood! We already know Rob's a supporting player in MTTS so the reviews aren't focused on him like The Rover was. BUT the critics are loving it and practically throwing rose petals! Maps To The Stars is getting all the stars, A+'s, all the numbers, and calls for the Palme to head straight to Cronenberg!

Watch the trailer again and see a sampling of what's being said and tweeted. Will continue to update!



REVIEWS

TheWrap:

“Maps to the Stars,” returns in a way to territory Cronenberg explored in “Dead Ringers,” and it's probably the director's best film in at least a decade....Robert Pattinson has a small part, but gets a love scene, of course, to satisfy his fans. Pattinson and Cronenberg are developing a nice collaboration, however, and here's to hoping we get to see more from the two of them....Probably the most exciting, unexpected surprise of the film festival so far, “Maps to the Stars” is about reaching upwards to something you're never supposed to touch. You can buy a map but you're never really meant to see what's beyond the gates. We need stars to remain where they are — unimaginably far away, shimmering in the night sky. But a star is really just a ball of fire. If you get too close you get burned. This might not be the happy ending we're seeking, but Cronenberg and Wagner give us the one we deserve.

The Telegraph giving MTTS 5/5 stars:

Jerome, a chauffeur and would-be actor winningly played by Robert Pattinson....
...My instant reaction, after stumbling, open-mouthed, from the cinema, was a pathological need to stumble back in again. There’s so much in this seething cauldron of a film, so many film-industry neuroses exposed and horrors nested within horrors, that one viewing is too much, and not nearly enough. Cronenberg has made a film that you want to unsee – and then see and unsee again.

The Guardian's Peter Bradsaw giving MTTS 4/5 stars:

David Cronenberg's new film here at Cannes is a gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about contemporary Hollywood – positively vivisectional in its sadism and scorn. It is twisted, twisty, and very far from all the predictable outsider platitudes about celebrity culture....
Almost immediately upon arrival, Agatha chances across Jerome Fontana (Robert Pattinson), limo driver and resting actor, with whom she begins a tense friendship. (It is an amusing twist on Pattinson's role on David Cronenberg's previous film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novella Cosmopolis, in which he was very much the limo passenger.) Her relationship with Jerome is what is to unravel her employment with the mercurial Havana, and is at the nexus of a world where everyone seems to be part of the same cousinhood or siblinghood of fear — one big unhappy dysfunctional family.

Little White Lies:

True to style, David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars is a work of cinematic fusion.

Film4:

David Cronenberg’s latest is a sublime black comedy of manners involving characters with lives as lurid as any in Kenneth Anger’s trash opus Hollywood Babylon (that infamous book’s sales blurb – “the legendary underground classic of Hollywood’s darkest and best kept secrets” – could, with only a little rewording, double as a tagline for Maps To The Stars).

TimeOut giving MTTS 3/5 stars:

Targets don’t come much softer than Hollywood. What stops David Cronenberg’s grotesque noir ‘Maps to the Stars’, written by LA insider Bruce Wagner, from feeling tired is that it’s deliciously odd.

ThePlaylist giving MTTS a B+:

The director's also been gifted a cracking cast for the material. Before you ask: no, Robert Pattinson isn't in it all that much but yes, he's pretty good in it. Plus you get to see him as a sort of glam-rock version of Khan from "Star Trek," so there's that...the film is a sickly enjoyable wallow in the scandalous, fucked-up side of showbusiness, and a real return to form for the filmmaker.

Indiewire giving MTTS a B+:

Only Pattinson, in a handful of scenes, is underutilized—yet the new context of his celebrity in this anti-celebrity project marks one more satisfying ingredient in Cronenberg's subversive mixture. "Maps to the Stars" is like a poetic dissection of familiar ingredients that zeroes in on its worst offenders.

Indiewire:

With a script by novelist Bruce Wagner and a cast that includes Robert Pattinson, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and John Cusack, as well as Carrie Fisher, herself a mordant chronicler of Tinseltown excesses, it certainly has its bona fides in order, and the hosannahs are intense enough to raise expectations that the dissents don't manage to drown out. After all, if no one hated it, it would be a David Cronenberg movie, would it?

ScreenDaily:

Cronenberg’s go-to composer, Howard Shore, delivers one of his best scores yet for the dry Canadian maestro, a menacing undertow that picks up on some of the ethnic, New Age sounds of the world it depicts, but shifts them into Clockwork Orange territory.

Variety:

Of the main characters, only limo driver Jerome Fontana (Robert Pattinson, at the wheel rather than in the backseat after “Cosmopolis”) feels like an outsider, though it might have been wise to filter this unwieldy satire through his eyes — or those of someone not yet corrupted by association with the industry.

TWEETS

• @robbiereviews:Well, Maps to the Stars is *incredible*. #Cannes2014
• @olilyttelton: MAPS TO THE STARS: Deliciously fucked-up Hollywood gothic-cum-Greek tragedy. Cronenberg's most entertaining in ages.
• @catherinebray/Film4: If I was in charge of the Palme d'Or, I'd give it to Cronenberg...A couple of Pattinson fans have asked, so: he's not in Maps to the Stars that much, but is good when he is. Has two love interests.
• @gabrielecapo: Maps to the Stars: Hollywood, the dead ringer of itself. A reiteration of the same idea. Life is not. My Palm so far #Cannes2014 #Cronenberg
• @GlennRunn: Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars is a deliciously warped satire of Hollywood’s debauched excesses. A bit mad and a bit brilliant.
• @spliggle/TotalFilm: Well Maps to the Stars is a bit brilliant/insane
• @KetchumAtMovies/Variety: Maps to the Stars - [A]. Top form Cronenberg. Twisted, smart, and insane. Academy gods, give Ms. Moore an Oscar nomination! #Cannes2014
• @heavier_things: Maps to the Stars: brilliant, biting satire from Cronenberg. Laughed all the way through. Perfect casting. Really dug this one. #Cannes2014
• @_ann_lee: Maps to the Stars: Razor sharp satire on Hollywood's corroding power. Just hilarious. Bitchy Moore a sensation. My fav of #Cannes2014 so far
• @_Winter_wind: I think the best way to describe this "maps to the stars" Hollywood mockery is fun, crazy, insane and entertaining. It gets an A-
• @jessicakiang/ThePlaylist: Loved Maps to the Stars. Deliciously bonkers vision of Hollywood as a mythic village of inbreds.

See more tweets collected on our site for Maps To The Stars HERE!

FIRST 'Maps To The Stars' REVIEW: Robert Pattinson Shows He's More Than A Pretty Face

The first review for Maps To The Stars appeared in Studio Cinelive Magazine and makes me even more excited to see this movie!
Check out the translation below the scan.



Translation

Forget the gloomy or easy-peasy Cosmopolis and A Dangerous Method, Cronenberg is back to his domain of preference: rough, trashy with crazy characters and a hypnotizing atmosphere. Maps To The Stars is like a reborn for his filmography. Is it because for the first time he endorses the pamphlet's codes in this dark and incandscent representation of Hollywood where the false pretences are set as a moral code.

A family of nutcases, a star's comeback, a young roquet, a pyromaniac schizo-poet or a young limousine drive with a predatory smile who fucks in the backseat: Cronenberg feasts on these crazy characters and this culture of appearances in a very passionate movie. Maps To The Stars is raw and hypnotic, between reality and fantasy, dreams and nightmares. Until an icy and violent ending pursued with surprising events.

Mia reveals her "poisonous flower" side, Robert Pattinson shows he's more than a pretty face and Julianne's through the roof with what will become THE performance of a career which is already brilliant. Just like Cronenberg who renews with this twisted , distinguished and intelligent cinema.

Thanks to MTTSFrance for the scan
 Thanks to Sunny for doing the translation