First off, traffic has been diverted thanks to the visit of the US President, while the funeral of a recently deceased rapper and a particularly brutal anti-capitalist protest only add to the general feeling of chaos on the streets. But nothing lasts forever, and with this adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel, Cosmopolis, there’s a definite sense of the 69 year-old Canadian creatively clearing the decks and taking a firmer grip of the material at hand. Not only penning his first script since eXistenZ, but also breaking his fruitful seven-year collaboration with actor Viggo Mortensen, Cosmopolis finds Cronenberg embracing subject matter that’s decidedly less mainstream.Īn extremely faithful cinematic translation of DeLillo’s book, Cosmopolis follows the story of 28-year-old billionaire asset manager Eric Packer (Pattinson) as he takes a trip across Manhattan inside his armoured, high-tech stretch limo to get a haircut.īut this isn’t just any ordinary day in New York.
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