COSMOPOLIS SPOILER POST + Review from the Toronto Premiere Viewing

COSMOPOLIS SPOILER POST + Review from the Toronto Premiere Viewing

It's Cosmopolis Day in Canada! This is your spoiler thread so we invite you to share your uncensored thoughts  all weekend in here.  Below are links to our previous review/spoiler threads and my review of Cosmopolis. I kept the more spoiler-y bits under the cut for those avoiding.

• Part 1 - "Robert Pattinson giving a commanding, sympathetic portrait!"
• Part 2 - "Sensational central performance from Robert Pattinson"
• Part 3 - Robert Pattinson is "excellent in a difficult role"
• Spoiler Post #1

I've been blogging about Cosmopolis for a year and a half so when it was announced that Canada would release the film on June 8th, there was no question in my mind that I would be traveling to the Great White North to view the film. I knew I was going to enjoy it going in because I enjoyed the story and dialogue from the book/script. Cosmopolis promo has been all about emphasizing the dialogue so I felt ready.

I was not ready for the visual and auditory experience of Cosmopolis. It was exactly what David Cronenberg said: "fantastic faces saying fantastic words". My initial reaction to the film was I felt like my brain just had sex. The words kept running through my mind post-viewing and the interactions Rob's Eric Packer had with each character was impossible to forget.



Rob's performance was brilliant. It truly was. I only saw Eric Packer on the screen and I was mesmerized by his words, mind and actions. Rob shined in this role. It was "thick and chewy" and he owned it. I liken his performance to running a 4x4 race. Starting with a steady pace but half way through, letting your skill expand and in the last leg, letting it explode. The effect leaving you breathless. I felt breathless when the credits started to roll. This approach felt right for Eric too. His day, starting with a simple request/demand - a haircut - but then escalating into unfathomable complexities. Climaxing into an unknown but hopeful future.

More review after the cut w/semi-spoilers

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Robert Pattinson Chats To "Total Film" Magazine (Also Includes A "Cosmopolis" Review)

Robert Pattinson Chats To "Total Film" Magazine (Also Includes A "Cosmopolis" Review)

Rob talks about Cannes, "Cosmopolis" new projects and lots more



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Review of "Cosmopolis"
I think the reviewer should have read the book first.

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Robert Pattinson In The Irish Independent's Day & Night Magazine (Scans)

Robert Pattinson In The Irish Independent's Day & Night Magazine (Scans)



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"Cosmopolis Is So Different To Other Films, & That's One Of The Reasons I Wanted To Do It"- Robert Pattinson

UPDATE: I picked up a copy of "The Guardian" and scanned it for you

Robert Pattinson Tells The Guardian "Cosmopolis Is So Different To Other Films, & That's One Of The Reasons I Wanted To Do It"



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"I don't really know how accepted I am," says Robert Pattinson as he sips on an enormous paper cup of Coke. "Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out."

For someone with the world at his feet – he has the Twilight franchise behind him and David Cronenberg's icy drama Cosmopolis as his next release – Pattinson gives a good impression of a man plagued with self-doubt. "I've never really taken myself seriously as an actor," he says, fresh off a plane from Germany, where, he notes by the by, everybody seems to hate him.

"It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb," he says. "I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world."

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Cinebox Talks To Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg In Cannes

Cinebox Talks To Robert Pattinson & David Cronenberg In Cannes

Rob you can talk about prostates all you like, we STILL won't hate you!
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*NEW* Sucré Salé Interview Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg & Paul Giamatti

*NEW* Sucré Salé Interview Robert Pattinson, David Cronenberg & Paul Giamatti

I don't know what scene Rob was looking at with him and Juliette because the one I was looking at was "pretty" steamy!



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David Cronenberg Talks To The Sunday Times About Calming Down A Nervous Robert Pattinson

David Cronenberg Talks To The Sunday Times About Calming Down A Nervous Robert Pattinson



Cosmopolis is Cronenberg’s most prescient film yet. The mercurial director tells Kevin Maher about capitalism, phone-hacking and calming a manic Robert Pattinson

It’s the early erotic climax of David Cronenberg’s new movie Cosmopolis, and it features teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson playing Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager. Packer is staring deeply into the eyes of his financial director, Jane Melman (Emily Hampshire). The pair banter. They talk about foreign finance ministers. They joke about Melman’s water bottle. They even discuss the ubiquity of sexual impulses.

There’s just one thing awry, however. And it’s the fact that Packer is also on all fours, with his trousers down, in the middle of a protracted and hugely squelchy six-minute prostate examination.

This, of course, is very Cronenberg. For the man who gave us exploding heads in Scanners and sexualised body scars in, well, everything from Rabid to eXistenZ, is famed for both his perverse desire to subvert expectations and for his thundering belief in the tyranny of biology — “We can never escape from the reality of the human body!” is a favourite mantra.

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