Cosmopolis

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

Aroview: David Cronenberg adapts Don DeLillo's post-modern novel about a billionaire asset manager whose journey via limousine across a gridlocked Manhattan is stalled by various chance encounters.

Although too esoteric for general tastes, this is a quintessential example of Cronenberg's precision-cut mise en scene and mastery of form and content, in which DeLillo's curious prose is distilled into a thematically dense, language-rich story for our times. Indeed, a return to form for the Canadian auteur after 2011's surprisingly limp A DANGEROUS METHOD.

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