Cosmopolis (film)

Cosmopolis is a 2012 Canadian dramathriller film written, produced, and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson in the lead with Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Juliette Binoche, Jay Baruchel and Kevin Durand. It is based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. OnMay 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, drawing mixed early critical reactions. The film was released in Canada onJune 2012, and began a limited release in the United States onAugust 2012 by eOne Films. It is Cronenbergs first foray into script writing since 1999s eXistenZ.

He meets his wife, Elise, in her taxi, for coffee, in a bookstore, as well as outside a theater. She declines sex with him. Packer has sex with two other women. When after a day of poor trading he destroys a large part of his wealth, his wife takes this as a reason to dissolve their union.Anticapitalist activists demonstrate on the street. They wave rats and declare A spectre is haunting the world the spectre of capitalism. They spraypaint Packers limo and later one subjects him to a pieing. Packer learns that an assassin is out to kill him, but seems curiously uninterested in who the person might be. ........

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