Cosmos (2015 film)

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Cosmos
Directed byAndrzej Żuławski
Screenplay byAndrzej Żuławski
Based onCosmos
by Witold Gombrowicz
Produced byPaulo Branco
Starring
CinematographyAndré Szankowski
Edited byJulia Gregory
Music byAndrzej Korzyński
Production
companies
  • Alfama Films
  • Leopardo Filmes
Distributed byAlfama Films
Release dates
  • 8 August 2015 (2015-08-08) (
    Locarno
    )
  • 9 December 2015 (2015-12-09) (France)
Running time
102 minutes[1]
Countries
  • France
  • Poland
LanguageFrench
Budget€1.6 million[2]

Cosmos is a 2015 French-Portuguese speculative fiction thriller film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski based on the novel of the same name by Witold Gombrowicz.

Production

Cosmos was Andrzej Żuławski's first film in 15 years[3] and ended up being his final film; he died in February 2016. It was produced through Paulo Branco's Alfama Films in collaboration with the Portuguese company Leopardo Filmes. Principal photography took place from mid-November to late December 2014.[4]

Plot synopsis

A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest house with a friend and finds himself distracted by a mystery and the strange inhabitants of the home.[1]

Cast

Critical reception and awards

The film premiered in competition at the 2015

Locarno International Film Festival,[5] where it won the award for Best Direction.[3]

inebriation, or a magic trick. Real life is only steps away, but you'll never find anything as brutally fantastic out there."[9]

For

aesthetic paths that have long since been blocked off, overgrown or paved over."[10]

viscous plot and rake-thin premise" of the film are making it "impossible for any of the myriad ideas put forth to take hold with any lasting thematic coherence," and asserted that the film's "crazed maximalism and heightened delirium make [it] a dramatic exercise rather than a drama per se."[3]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes cited a cumulative rating of 81%, and an average rating of 7/10, based on 32 reviews.[12] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generaly favourable reviews".[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Cosmos". British Board of Film Classification. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Cosmos". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d Taylor, Meredith. "Cosmos (2015): Best Director Locarno 2015". Filmuphoria. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  4. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (9 January 2014). "Andrzej Zulawski's Cosmos in post-production". Cineuropa. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  5. Indiewire
    . 15 July 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  6. ^ Huddleston, Tom (15 August 2016). "Cosmos". Time Out. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  7. ^ Huber, Christof (2015). "Bleurghing the Unspeakable: A Stroll Through Andrzej Zulawski's Cosmos". CinemaScope. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  8. ^ Debruge, Peter (13 August 2015). "Locarno Film Review: Cosmos". Variety. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  9. ^ Tafoya, Scout (17 June 2016). "Cosmos". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  10. ^ Scott, A. O. (16 June 2016). "Cosmos Is a Madcap Plunge Into Retro Avant-Gardism". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  11. ^ McCahill, Mike (18 August 2016). "Cosmos review – absurdism without the laughs". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  12. ^ "Cosmos (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  13. ^ https://www.metacritic.com/movie/cosmos?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1c

External links

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