Cosmopolis

Showed at Images 9/21/2012–9/27/2012

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mathieu Amalric, Sarah Gadon

Unfolding in a single cataclysmic day, the story follows Eric Packer – a 28-year old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager – as he heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father’s old barber, while remotely wagering his company’s massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Packer’s luxe trip across the city quickly becomes dizzyingly hellish as he encounters explosive city riots, a parade of provocative visitors, and is thrust into a myriad of intimate encounters. Having started the day with everything, believing he is the future, Packer’s perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
  • Genre: Drama

“Diamond-hard and dazzlingly brilliant, David Cronenberg's film plays like a deeply perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome.”

– Slant Magazine