Cosmopolis (2012)

Awards
- 3 wins & 14 nominations

Trivia
This was Robert Pattinson's first film he worked on after finishing shooting The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012). He stated that the experience of working with David Cronenberg and having the film premiere at Cannes made him realize that he could pursue independent projects helmed by auteur directors, because he didn't think he was good or worthy enough to act in auteur cinema before.

Quotes
Didi Fancher: Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Crazy credits
"An Official Canada-France Co-Production"

Connections
Featured in Fantasmes! Sexe, fiction et tentations (2013)

Soundtracks
I Don't Want to Wake Up
Written by Emily Haines, James Shaw and Howard Shore
Performed by Metric

Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, crosses the city of NY in his limo to get a haircut.

All great artists, in this case, directors, have a bad work, and for me, this film is a splinter impossible to remove in Cronenberg's career.

There's no story here to follow, the dialogues are empty and sometimes pretentious, without substance that can be extracted from them, leaving the message of political and economic criticism completely distorted.

The characters have no soul, I simply couldn't connect and create empathy with them.

The photography made me scratch my head and thinking "why you did this?", I didn't see any credible reasons for using so many close-ups shots, or the sly CGI in the limo scenes.

Even Robert Patinson cannot save a scene from this film.